Pop and circumstance.(Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon)(Book Review) From: The Nation | Date: December 13, 2004| Author: Hoberman, J. | COPYRIGHT 2004 The Nation Company L.P. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

GUERNICA: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon.

By Gijs van Hensbergen. Bloomsbury. 373 pp. $35.

You may recall the to-do occasioned two winters past by a certain shift in the mise-en-scene at the United Nations. New blue drapes appeared to conceal the grisaille tapestry hung in the corridor outside the Security Council chamber in which then-Secretary of State Colin Powell had come to make the case for war against Iraq, and where the secretary was schedul...