Highlights of Art History: Carlos Cubeiro (Castilian)

• Somewhere between Rhodes and Barcelona, between a line drawn on a tablet in the 4th century BC and a basilica that has remained unfinished for one hundred and forty years, lies almost everything that humankind has sought to express without words.
• Carlos Cubeiro has brought together twenty such moments: the duel of brushes between Apelles and Protogenes, the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel painted with a broken neck, Rembrandt’s final self-portrait, the theft of the Mona Lisa, Duchamp’s Fountain, the terracotta warriors of Xi’an rescued from oblivion, the birth of Mickey Mouse, the Moka coffee pot, the exodus from the Prado Museum during the Civil War, and the Sagrada Família finally reaching its full height.
• Moments which, taken together, sketch out something akin to a portrait of humankind and which contain something of its vanity, its genius, its greed, its capacity to destroy what it does not understand or to venerate what it does not deserve.
• A delightful, erudite, ironic, rigorous and literary book, keen to point out that today we visit museums with the reverence we once reserved for places of worship, whilst art disappears from classrooms as if it were dispensable. Reading it is an act of resistance.
• Pages: 304.
• Binding: hardback.
• Author: Carlos Cubeiro.
• Language: Spanish.
• Year: 2022
• ISBN: 9791370204105

Publisher: Almuzara.