Modernismo: The Catalan Renaissance of The Arts
NY: Garland Publishing, 1976. Hardcover. Blue cloth/boards with silver spine lettering. viii, 462 pp. 175 bw plates. VG, clean and bright interior but with 20-year-old price sticker on fep and light rubbing to cover corners and spine ends. Item #5960
Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in The Fine Arts Series. An outstanding evaluation and examination of Spanish art from the 19th century. Submitted as Cervera's PhD dissertation to University of California, Berkeley. Chapters include The Politics of Art; Modernismo, its History and Sources; Painting; Rusinol and Casas; The Decorative Arts; Architecture; Periodicals; Critics of Modernismo; Conclusion. An appendix addresses The Problem of Picasso and Modernismo. With a list of illustrations, followed by the bw plates and a bibliography. Scarce.
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