Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona

by Temma Kaplan

Book Overview

In Red City, Blue Period , Kaplan combines the methods of anthropology and the new cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939. She analyzes the peculiar sense of solidarity the citizens forged and explains why shared experiences of civic culture and pageantry sometimes galvanized resistance to authoritarian national governments but could not always overcome local class and gender struggles. She sheds light on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520084403
• ISBN13: 9780520084407
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"