Dec 17, 2009
Robert Hughes’s Barcelona, a study of two thousand years of that city’s history aimed at a general audience, gives considerable information about the city’s physical, political, religious, artistic, and social development while supplying essential historical narrative necessary for an understanding of Barcelona’s unique presence and allure. Hughes, however, makes it known early in the book that this is neither an in-depth nor a scholarly assessment of Catalunya’s principal city, operating rather as a general introduction with a heavy emphasis on the painters,...
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