The volume proposes a new interpretation of the influence and development of Picasso's painting and the early Surrealism of Dalí and Miró in relation to the tradition of great Catalan painting, from the end of the 19th century up until the 1930s. The painting of Picasso constitutes the focus of the first part of the volume, which documents his training in Barcelona and the influence on the Catalan modernist movement of the late 19th-century work of artists like Santiago Rusiñol, Ramon Casas, Isidre Nonell or Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa. The pictures of this period are of great importance since, in addition to being linked to postimpressionism, they already contain the germs of the expressionism, symbolism and lyricism that Picasso was to develop subsequently. The book continues with works representative of Catalan landscape painting belonging to the postimpressionist and expressionist tradition (which in Catalonia emerged during the first few decades of the 20th century and assumed particular significance in the context of European painting), and with Miró's early works from the Montroig period, in which his interest in the tradition of the Catalan primitives is plainly visible. The third part of the volume looks at the movement of Catalan Noucentisme, (Joaquim Sunyer, Torres-García and Manolo Hugué) and the works of Salvador Dalí. M. Josep Balsach is professor of the History of Contemporary Art and principal of the department of Contemporary Art and Culture at the Università of Gerona (Spain).
The book will be avaiable in bookstores from 9 April 2003.
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