Words at Stake: Picasso, the Image and the Text on the Verge of Guernica

Abstract

Traditionally, the frenetic activity of Picasso while painting Guernica (1937) is studied from his numerous sketches and visual works, leaving aside the bulky literary production that he had been developing since 1935. The latter is an appropriate complement that explains several of the surrealist unfoldings of his plastic work, thus helping us to delve into the genesis of one of the most relevant works of the 20th century.