Barcelona the Great Enchantress 英文原版

Robert Hughes has been a regular visitor to Barcelona since the
1960s and published a book about the city in 1992 that was quickly
hailed as a classic. In Barcelona the Great Enchantress, Hughes
crafts a more personal tale of his nearly forty-year love affair
with the Spanish metropolis, one of the most vibrant and
fascinating cities in Europe.
Beginning with a vivid de*ion of his wedding in the splendid
medieval ceremonial chamber in Barcelona’s city hall, Hughes
launches into a lively account of the history, art, and
architecture of the storied city. He tells of architectural
treasures abounding in 14th-century Barcelona, establishing it as
one of Europe’s great Gothic cities, while Madrid was hardly more
than a cluster of huts. The city spawned such great artists as
Antoni Gaudi, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, and Pablo
Casals. Hughes’s deep knowledge of the city is evident—but it’s his
personal reflections of what Barcelona, its people, and its storied
history and culture have meant to him over the decades that sets
Barcelona the Great Enchantress apart from all others’ books.

Robert Hughes was the long time critic for Time Magazine. He is
the author of many books, including the best-selling Fatal Shore
and his recent, critically acclaimed memoir Things I Didn’t Know,
as well as the originator and narrator of the highly acclaimed PBS
television series Shock of the New and American Visions. A frequent
contributor to The New York Review of Books, Hughes lives in New
York City.