An excellent exhibition catalogue which can serve as a primer for English readers on the great Catalan port city, 'Homage to Barcelona: The city and its art 1888 - 1936' was edited and produced by Michael Raeburn for the Arts Council of Great Britain, printed at Jolly & Barber LImited, Rugby, Warwickshire, and was published in 1986 by Thames and Hudson Ltd. London, England on the occasion of the exhibition 'Homage to Barcelona' at the Hayward Gallery, London, England organized by the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Ajuntament de Barcelona and the Arts Council of Great Britain.

Showing a full colour photographic detail of ceramic tilework on the finials of La Sagrada Familia by Gaudi in Barcelona, it is Dedicated to Joan Miro (1893 - 1983) and Roland Penrose (1900 - 1984), contains a Forward by Joanna Drew and Andrew Dempsey of the Arts Council of Great Britain, a list of Lenders to the Exhibition, Acknowledgements, an Editor's Note by Michael Raeburn, an Introduction by Marilyn McCully, 20 essays by various authors amply illustrated throughout by black and white and full colour illustrations, a Chronology and the Catalogue.

The essays are listed as follows with their accompanying authors, and page number:
Barcelona, a European City, Isidre Molas, 79
The Universal Exhibition of 1888, Judith Rohrer, 97
Architecture in the emerging metropolis, Oriol Bohigas, 101
The rediscovery of ancient Barcelona, Josep Guitart, 111
Modernista architecture, Ignasi de Sola-Morales, 115
From Montjuic to the world, Francesc Roca, 133
Barcelona and its people, Salvador Giner, 141
Modernista painting, Cristina Mendoza, 149
The art of Noucentisme, Francesc Fontbona, 169
The foreign avant garde in Barcelona, 1912 - 1930, Alicia Suarez, 195
ADLAN and the artists of the Republic, Rosa Maria Subirana, 211
The decorative arts in everyday life, Daniel Giralt-Miracle, 227
Graphic arts in Catalonia, 1888 - 1936, Eliseu Trenc Ballester, 241
Catalan literature between Modernisme and Noucentisme, Alan Yates, 253
Joan Maragall, Five essays translated and with a note by Arthur Terry, 265
Poetry from Modernisme to Noucentisme, J. Vidal Alcover, 269
Theatrical life in Barcelona, 1888 - 1936, Guillem-Jordi Graells, 273,
Musical life in Barcelona, 1888 - 1936, Roger Alier, 277
Not at all modern and very twentieth century, Maria Aurelia Capmany, 285