Catalonia A Cultural History 1st Edition by Michael Eaude 1904955320 9781904955320

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ISBN 10: 1904955320

ISBN 13: 9781904955320

Author: Michael Eaude

Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens was crushed by Spain. Its geography, with the Pyrenees falling sharply to the rugged Costa Brava, is tormented, too. Michael Eaude traces this history and its monuments: Roman Tarragona, celebrated by the poet Martial; Greek Empuries, lost for centuries beneath the sands; medieval Romanesque architecture in the Vall de Boi churches (a World Heritage Site) and Poblet and Santes Creus monasteries. He tells the stories of several of Catalonia’s great figures: Abbot Oliva, who brought Moorish learning to Europe, the ruthless mercenary, Roger de Flor, and Verdaguer, handsome poet-priest. Catalonia is famous today for its twentieth-century art. This book focuses on the revolutionary Art Nouveau buildings (including the Sagrada Familia) of Antoni Gaudi. It also explores the region’s artistic legacy: the young Picasso painting Barcelona’s vibrant slums; Salvador Dali, inspired by the twisted rocks of Cap de Creus to paint his landscapes of the human mind; and Joan Miro, discovering the colours of the red earth at Montroig.

Catalonia A Cultural History 1st Table of contents:

Introduction – Thoroughfare and Nation

Birth and Rebirth of a Nation

Portbou and Montserrat: Sea and Mountain

Ghost Town

Stephen Spender’s Divided Heart

Trapped: Walter Benjamin’s Last Night

Dark Lady of the Mountains: Montserrat

Mediterranean, the Centre of the Earth: Tarragona

The City that Speaks Latin

Empúries: “whispering centuries of ghosts”

Wetlands: the Empordà

Romanesque Catalonia: The Pyrenees

Hispanic Marches

Barrel Vaults and Towers

The Boí Valley

Besalú and Girona: the Jewish Tragedy

Glory and Rapine: Poblet and Athens

“A great feudal monastery”

Peace and Conquest

Imperial Rapine

The Poet-Priest and the Indiano: Verdaguer and Antonio López

The Renaissance

Peasant Son and Poet

Triumph and Fall

The Slave-Trading Philanthropist

The Lancashire of Spain: Gaudí and Güell

Putting out the Fires of Revolt

Indianos

Santa Coloma Colony

The Chapel in the Woods

Geniuses

Fleeing the Straight and Narrow: Gaudí and Reus

Reus: Wealth in Stone

Gaudí

Gaudí’s Reputation

Palau Güell

Sant Pau and the Sagrada Família

The Birth of Modern Painting: Rusiñol at Sitges, Casas and Pablo Picasso

The Iron Burrow

Darwin’s Monkey

The Vertical Invader

The Terminal Beach: Salvador Dalí

Castle and Theatre: Figueres

Ambivalent Legacy

Cadaqués

Feet Rooted to the Red Earth: Joan Miró

The Man Who Could Not Draw

Fundació Miró

I Come from a Silence: Catalan Music

Raimon

Chimes to the Dead

Traditional Roots

Yearning Havanera and Sexy Rumba

Tourism and War

The Sweaty Groin: Barcelona’s Raval

Chinatown

Squalor and Gentrification

Rambling

The Gothic Quarter, Barcelona

The Museum-City

Cathedral and Cloister

Plaça del Rei

Santa Maria del Mar

Mass Migration and Mass Tourism: Lloret

Contested Spaces

City of Noise

Package Holidays and the Changing Costa Brava

Lloret

Plain and River: Lleida and the Ebro

City of the Plain

Mequinensa: Drowned Town

Yellow Fog along the Ebro Valley

A Dying Delta

The Anarchist Dream: George Orwell and Revolution

Rose of Fire

Revolutionary Days: Orwell in Catalonia

Crushing the Revolution

The Landscape in the Pot: Food, Drink and Identity

Cava

Catalan Cuisine

The Boqueria: the Religion of Food

The Dalí of Cuisine

Cradle and Refuge: FC Barcelona

Triumph and Tragedy

Football and Nationalism

Catalonia is not Spain

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