Barcelona 1900

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<p>Barcelona is well known as a center of contemporary art and architecture, but that prominence owes much to the creative outpouring it witnessed at the dawn of the twentieth century, when it was known as the "rose of fire." The physical city was transformed by the civil engineer Ildefonso Cerd¿nd the architects Antoni Gaud¿nd Llu¿Dom¿ch. As Barcelona changed around them, modernist artists including Pablo Picasso, Isidre Nonell, and Ramon Casas produced work fueled by and focused on political and humanitarian concerns.</p><p><i>Barcelona 1900</i> portrays the artistic, cultural, social, and political history of the city at this crucial turning point. Featuring more than 192 color and black-and-white illustrations¿paintings, sculptures, drawings, and objects of applied art¿the book illustrates the development of the modern city, Art Nouveau, and modernism alongside Barcelona''s tumultuous social conflicts, the daily life of the middle classes, the anarchist movement, and the anticleric