HOMAGE IN CATALONIA.(Gaudi)

Commonweal | November 9, 2001| | Copyright

 
Gaudi 
Gijs van Hensbergen 
HarperCollins, $35, 368 pp.

There is a tradition of biographies of artists that goes back at least as far as Giorgio Vasari's great Lives of the Artists, first published in 1550. Vasari focused on biography in order to paint a picture, if you will, of the men who had distinguished themselves by the creation of their hands. Vasari clearly felt the necessity of attending to his contemporary and future readers. In his introduction to part 2 of the Lives, he defines the purpose of history as setting "forth the underlying currents, the ...

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