Los otros guernicas

Abstract

Real López, Inmaculada. Los otros guernicas. Gijón: Ediciones TREA, 2024. The book takes Picasso's Guernica as its central axis to examine the relationships between art and politics during the Spanish Civil War, tracing iconographic precedents—from Goya's The Disasters of War—through to the dispersal and exile of Republican artists. The work addresses the fresco cycle by Luis Quintanilla commissioned by the Second Republic for the 1939 New York World's Fair, the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exposition, the representation of women as both subject and creator, and the parallels between the fate of Guernica and that of lesser-known works and artists. The reviewer highlights the scientific rigor, solid archival foundation—including unpublished documents such as Josep Renau's typescript—and the accessibility of a work that serves both expert readers and the general public.