Pablo Picasso - Couverture souple

Caws, Mary Ann

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1861892470 ISBN 13 : 9781861892478

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 2005

Synopsis

This book provides a fresh, engaging view into Picasso’s life and art. Mary Ann Caws describes the artist’s life thematically and chronologically, and also takes as focal points Picasso’s relationships with his close friends as they changed over the years. Pablo Picasso invokes central places and characters in various periods of the artist’s long and active life: in Barcelona; his time at the Bâteau-Lavoir in Paris; his work and life in Provence; his friendships with Gertrude Stein, Max Jacob, Apollinaire and Pierre Reverdy, Jean Cocteau, Breton and the surrealists, and later Dalí, Eluard, and critic Roland Penrose. It traces his relationships with partners Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot and Jacqueline Roque. Caws provides biographical context to the artist’s work, focusing on the time around Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and then Guernica, as well as the changes and consistencies in his oeuvre over the twentieth century. Throughout, the author examines Picasso’s juggling of viewpoints, artistic strategies, loves and friends, which she interprets as part of the expansion of the artist's genius and personality, represented by the figures of the Harlequin, the clown and the acrobat. This book is a concise and lively study of the enormously productive and varied life and art of one of the twentieth century’s most influential artistic figures.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, English and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is an Officer in the Palmes Académiques, a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her recent publications include Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism (2019) and Mina Loy: Apology of Genius (2022), both published by Reaktion.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1861892470
• ISBN 13: 9781861892478
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible