The approximately five hundred sculptures within the reach of passers-by lie on the border between art and stage settings, culture and city. Although the main twentieth-century movements and artists are represented in different works, Barcelona has not been conceived as an open-air sculpture museum, despite resembling one. Instead, it has endeavoured to receive art in a vivacious project that allows us to define it as a plastic city. 

 

Barcelona, Open-Air Sculptures

Jaume Capó, Mihail Moldoveanu

208pp./ 25x29.5cm./ 140il./ Hardcover

ISBN:
9788434309791
9788434309814
9788434309807
Castellano
English
Català

47.50€
 

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Over the two past decades the city of Barcelona has become a point of reference for cultural tourism. The intense activity in the spheres of art and of town planning, and particularly the opening of new art centres and the modernisation of existing museums, alongside the growth of the city’s sculptural heritage have proven to be decisive factors. This new collection of trilingual pocket guides comprising exhaustive updated documentation is introduced by the volumes dedicated to museums, foundations and exhibition halls, and to the sculptures designed for public spaces by some of the most outstanding twentieth-century artists, including Baumgarten, Calder, Chillida, Gargallo, Merz, Miró, Tàpies, Turrell...

 

Barcelona guides. Open-Air Sculptures

Jaume Capó, Mihail Moldoveanu
castellano/english/català
160pp./ 12x16.5cm./ 260il./ Paperback with flaps

ISBN:
9788434310193 trilingual

11.95€
 

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Barcelona, Modern Architecture Guide 1929-1979 is an approach to a very complex period of the recent history of Barcelona.The first decade analyses the most heroic time of Modern Movement, including the World Exhibition in 1929, eith the well-known German Pavillion conceived by Mies van der Rohe and the experience of the GATPAC, a group of young architects leaded by Josep Lluís Sert.

 

Barcelona guides. Modern Architecture Guide (1929-1979)

Patricia de Muga, Laura García Hintze
castellano/english/català
224pp./ 12x16.5cm./ 274il./ Paperback with flaps

ISBN:
9788434311268 trilingual

11.95€
 

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