Barcelona Gaud And Modernism

This book is a real tour of the famous modernism buildings of Barcelona: the Palau Guell, Mercat de la Boqueria, Els 4 Gats, Palau de la Musica and many others. It includes the 50 sights which make up the modernism route in Barcelona. Includes brief historical and architectural accounts of the sights and also includes recent full colour photographs, details and location maps.

Over more than 80 pages, this book presents us with 13 samples of modernist architecture. Among the architects are: Antoni Gaudi, Jaume Gusta i Bondia, Joan Rubio, etc... Includes stained glass windows and furnitures, interior and exterior full colour photographs. Also includes a city map of Barcelona showing more than 60 modernist works.

Catalogus van een tentoonstelling van werk van Catalaanse kunstenaars.

This book is intended to be an aid to visitors who wants to go deeper than just taking in the traditional tourist sites so that they can discover how a group of artists created a trend which broke away from the old established ideas.

The four decades between the two Universal Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929 were formative in the creation of modern Barcelona. Architecture and art blossomed in the work of Antoni Gaudi­ and many others. At the same time, social unrest tore the city apart. Topics such as art nouveau and anarchism have attracted the attention of numerous historians. Yet the crucial role of science, technology and medicine in the cultural makeup of the city has been largely ignored. The ten articles of this book recover the richness and complexity of the scientific culture of end of the century Barcelona. The authors explore a broad range of topics: zoological gardens, natural history museums, amusement parks, new medical specialities, the scientific practices of anarchists and spiritists, the medical geography of the urban underworld, early mass media, domestic electricity and astronomical observatories. They pay attention to the agenda of the bourgeois elites but also to hitherto neglected actors: users of electric technologies and radio amateurs, patients in clinics and dispensaries, collectors and visitors of museums, working class audiences of public talks and female mediums. Science, technology and medicine served to exert social control but also to voice social critique. Barcelona: An urban history of science and modernity (1888-1929) shows that the city around 1900 was both a creator and facilitator of knowledge but also a space substantially transformed by the appropriation of this knowledge by its unruly citizens.

*Includes pictures *Includes Gaudi's quotes about his life and work *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator." - Antoni Gaudi Halfway into the 19th century, Spain's Catalonia underwent a sweeping transformation when it was thrust into not one, but 2 golden eras - the Renaixen�a and the Industrial Revolution. It was during this explosive period of creativity, thriving prosperity, and invigorated patriotism that a steadfastly nonconforming and fascinatingly eccentric icon was born, one that was about to take Catalonia by storm with his brilliant eye for unorthodox art and his legendary - or as some would say, notoriously - out-of-the-box ideas. Salvador Dal�, the celebrated surrealist, was one of many who would find a fount of inspiration in him, even once raving about the Sagrada Familia, the highlight of this icon's career: "Those who have not heard about the chromatic and shining essence of its color, the astonishing polyphony of its towers as organ pipes and shocked by its mutant naturalism, are traitors." This icon in question, of course, is none other than what many now consider to be the patriarch of the Catalan Modernism movement: Antoni Gaud�. Antoni Gaud�: The Life and Legacy of the Architect of Catalan Modernism examines his life and career highlights, how his religiosity and love for nature shaped his art, and how a dangerous obsession eventually led to a genius' tragic end. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about Gaudi like never before.

A critical re-examination of the Catalan master.