Barcelona with Robert Hughes - ACE241.4

Hughes discusses the new city design with David Mackay, architect and architectural historian. Photograph of new city under construction, and map of completed area. Aerial views; travelling views of cemetery on Montjuïc. A variety of extravagant tombs, two motorcycle policemen guarding the area, the "multi-storey" tomb blocks. Poster, photographs and engravings of the Exposición Universal of 1888, the fairground created for it, a photograph of the Mayor, Francesc de Paula Rius I Taulet, The monument to Christopher Columbus (the Mirador di Colón). Pictures of buildings (examples of Catalan Modernism) at the Exposicion: the triumphal arch, and the café-restaurant in the Parc de la Ciutadella, the Castel dels Tres Dragons, by Lluís Domènech i Montaner. Details from other examples of Modernism – glass, tiles, sculptures, etc