Barcelona (1992)

Robert Hughes

Year:	1992
Authors:	Robert Hughes
Publishers:	Alfred A. Knopf
Pages:	600
Print type:	BOOK

Description:

Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and "seny -- the Catalan word for triumphant common sense. "From the Trade Paperback edition.