Guernica

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During the Spanish Civil War the Republican forces, made up of communists, socialists, anarchists, and others with differing goals, united in their opposition to the Nationalists, led by General Francisco Franco, who sought to establish a fascist dictatorship. The Nationalists perceived Guernica, a quiet village in the province of Biscay in Basque Country, as the northern bastion of the Republican resistance movement and the center of Basque culture. [9] Your next book, Guernica! Guernica! A Study of Journalism, Propaganda and History by Herbert Southworth, explores another of the key moments of the Spanish Civil War. As early as 1968, Franco had expressed an interest in having Guernica come to Spain. [7] However, Picasso refused to allow this until the Spanish people again enjoyed a republic. He later added other conditions, such as the restoration of "public liberties and democratic institutions". Picasso died in 1973. Franco, ten years Picasso's junior, died two years later, in 1975. After Franco's death, Spain was transformed into a democratic constitutional monarchy, ratified by a new constitution in 1978. However, MoMA was reluctant to give up one of its greatest treasures and argued that a monarchy did not represent the republic that had been stipulated in Picasso's will as a condition for the painting's delivery. Under great pressure from a number of observers, MoMA finally ceded the painting to Spain in 1981. The Spanish historian Javier Tusell was one of the negotiators. [ citation needed] From medieval times, Guernica was a crossroads of the old Romain Way and the Fish and Wine Route that wound through the hills inland from the sea. Intersecting them both was the pilgrim's route to Santiago de Compostela.

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After the civil war he and Jay Allen continued trying to help Spanish refugees and when American finally entered World War II, Herbert volunteered and ended up in North Africa. After the war he bought a pile of army surplus radio equipment and created Radio Tangier and stayed on waiting for the day when Franco would fall. During that time he befriended lots of Spanish Republicans. He also became a great expert on the Falangists as well and through endless communication with them came to be recognised as an expert by them as well. Kennedy, Maev. (2009) "Picasso tapestry of Guernica heads to UK", London: The Guardian, 26 January 2009. Accessed: 14 August 2009. The Accordionist's Son by Atxaga, and The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky. These are all about the Basque people. I also have to read Salt a World History by Kurlansky. The thesis became Guernica! Guernica! – a book not just about what happened but also about the myth. The full title of the book is, Guernica! Guernica! A Study of Journalism, Propaganda and History and it is about all of those things. It is just an astonishing treasure trove about many aspects of the civil war. It is all seen through the prism of Guernica, but there is so much in it about the propaganda services of the nationalists, how lies are disseminated. Obviously, he was interested in journalists, having been one and knowing most of the main journalists who worked on the Republican side.Saul, Toby (8 May 2018). "The horrible inspiration behind one of Picasso's great works". nationalgeographic.com. Retrieved 21 May 2019.

Guernica Was a Dress Rehearsal for the Nazi War That Followed Guernica Was a Dress Rehearsal for the Nazi War That Followed

Preston has documented years of horrific violence in his book. From the early 1930s to several years after the end of World War II, these included vast numbers of body dismemberments, rapes, body burnings, starvation, concentration camps, wholesale shootings of landless peasants, and on and on. To be sure, the Republican side was also violent; but Preston’s conclusion, after decades of research, is that there is no comparison with the atrocities against civilians perpetrated by the Nationalists and their fascist supporters in Italy and Germany. El Patronato del Reina Sofía rechaza la cesión temporal del 'Guernica' al Gobierno vasco, El Mundo, 22 June 2006. Suddenly, something had snapped inside this jaded, middle-aged man who’d spent more than nine months sipping coffee as the world collapsed. Maar was stunned by what she called his “indignation”; José Bergamín, the Malagueño poet and ardent anti-fascist who had become a close friend, could only describe it as “Spanish fury.” Man Ray, the photographer and surrealist who had been part of Picasso’s circle since the early 1920s, had never seen him react this way to world events. Having shut out the war in Spain for so long, another friend, the publisher Christian Zervos, noted, Picasso now let his paintbrush explode with “distress, anguish, terror, insurmountable pain, massacres, and finally peace found in death.”

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I think it is down to the fact that I was born in Liverpool in 1946 and Liverpool had been really badly hit with the Blitz. So when I was a kid the conversation was always about the Blitz and all the kids’ games were British versus Germans. I grew up with this kind of obsession with World War II and why it had happened. When I went to university that’s what I really wanted to study. I got into Oxford but in those days there was little opportunity to study very much modern history. Witham, Larry (2013). Picasso and the chess player: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and the battle for the soul of modern art. Hanover; London: University Press of New England. ISBN 9781611682533 Smee, Sebastian (12 February 2020). "American carnage". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 22 March 2022 . Retrieved 24 April 2022. When I began this novel I expected it to be really sad and it is very sad but it also is remarkably funny and heartwarming. Above all , it is a book very much about love and loss and finding strength to move on when everything you loved and lived for has been destroyed by the cruelest and most senseless of acts you can imagine. (And an introduction to the Basque language thrown in for free.) Before reading this book what I knew of the Spanish Civil War was that Hemingway once wrote a book based upon it. Of course since I've never read any Hemingway that's as far as my knowledge went. The village of Guernica came to my attention through an art history class in college when I was introduced to Picasso's painting of the same title and then when I had the good fortune to view the painting some years later during a visit to the Prado in Madrid. I did learn some of the details of the tragedy that befell this small village in the Basque region of Spain but only that it was used as some sort of an training exercise for German bomber pilots assisting Franco and that the victims were primarily unarmed civilians that posed no military threat to anyone. The devastation this village suffered is ably depicted by Picasso in his painting and the artist and the painting are given repeated reference throughout the telling of the story of this novel.