Barcelona

Nobody has ever represented [Barcelona’s] character more powerfully, or illustrated its claims to self-destiny more persuasively, than has Robert Hughes in this monumental work – Jan Morris * Los Angeles Times *Whether untangling the unlikely legends of Wilfred the Hairy or tangling with the likes of Antoni Gaudi, Hughes has shaped Catalan art, architecture and politics into the ultimate guidebooks – David Newnham * Guardian *A wonderful book, by far the best yet to have appeared in the current flood of books on Spain - and one that fills a genuine gap – Martin Gayford * Sunday Telegraph *Barcelona is unlikely to be rewarded with a better history than this. Robert Hughes is a master of the big canvas, scooping up the detail of social, economic, political and artistic life and producing images of captivating richness * Sunday Times *

Robert Hughes, art critic of Time magazine and twice winner of the American College Art Association’s F. J. Mather Award for distinguished criticism, is author of The Shock of the New, and of Heaven and Hell in Western Art. He is also author of the acclaimed Nothing if Not Critical, a work on Frank Auerbach; Barcelona, and Culture of Complaint, essays on the fraying of America. Robert Hughes died in August 2012.