| Description |
12 pages, 83 unnumbered pages of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 21 x 24 cm |
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Collections of fine art in Dover books |
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Collections of fine art in Dover books.
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| Summary |
Goya's great series of etchings, The Disasters of War, came about as a consequence of the Spanish War of Independence. Between 1810 and 1823, the artist created a series of prints, such as this one, which reveals the devastating side of war-the agony, irony, and bitter pessimism. Goya's prints had an indelible impact on Ernest Hemingway, who shared the artist's antiwar sentiment and ability to portray human suffering. In his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Hemingway gives excruciating accounts of the devastation suffered on both sides during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Some of the writer's passages read much like the images depicted by Goya in The Disasters of War. -Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website |
| Analysis |
Spain Pictorial works History Napoleonic Conquest, 1808-1813 |
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Spain Pictorial works History Napoleonic Conquest, 1808-1813 |
| Notes |
"This Dover edition ... reproduces in its entirety the first edition of Goya's Disasters of War ... : the original Spanish title page and preface and the eighty original plates (natural size). In addition, the three plates (81-83) which became known only after 1863 are reproduced ..." |
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Also issued online |
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Translation of: Los desasters de la guerra |
| Subject |
Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828.
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Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828. Disasters of war.
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War in art.
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| SUBJECT |
Spain -- History -- Napoleonic Conquest, 1808-1813 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126089 -- Pictorial works.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001272
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Spain -- History -- Napoleonic Conquest, 1808-1813.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126089
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| Author |
Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984.
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| LC no. |
67015964 |
| ISBN |
0486218724 |
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