Guernica: Horror and inspiration
By Richard Rhodes | November 1, 2013
In this essay, the author describes how the destruction wrought by the indiscriminate firebombing of a small Basque town during the Spanish Civil War came to inspire Pablo Picasso’s most famous painting, Guernica.
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Issue: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 69 Issue 6
Keywords: Basque, Gernika, Guernica, Pablo Picasso, Spanish Civil War
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Richard Rhodes
Rhodes is the author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, National Book Award, and National... Read More
