War and Peace in the Art of Pablo Picasso: "Guernica" (1937)
A Lecture by Dr. David M. Hart
[Created November 8, 2010]
[Updated July 21, 2022]
[Updated July 21, 2022]
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Pablo Picasso, "Guernica" (1937)
Guernica Sketch (6 May 1937)
A Lecture materials
- Lecture handout - [PDF 1.8 MB]
- Lecture slide show - [PDF 19 MB]
Other Resources
- Study Guide on Picasso's Art on War and Peace [HTML]
- An essay on "War and Peace in the Visual Arts" [HTML draft] and [2.3 MB PDF final version] which appeared as "War and Peace in the Arts" in the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005), vol. 6, pp. 2454-2460.
- Some study guides on individual artists which were used in
my course
"Responses to War: An Intellectual and Cultural History":
- The Bayeux Tapestry - celebrating the Norman Conquest of England
- Jacques Callot - the "miseries" of the Thirty Years War
- Francisco Goya - the "disasters" of the occupation of Spain by Napoleon
- Honoré Daumier - satirist of militarism in the mid-19thC
- Winslow Homer - the American Civil War
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens - statue memorialising Robert Gould Shaw
- Lady Elizabeth Butler - celebrating the "little wars" of the Victorian era
- Otto Dix - the horrors of trench warfare in WW1