A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 - Couverture rigide

Richardson, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0394559185 ISBN 13 : 9780394559186

Editeur : Random House Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Book by John Richardson

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"John Richardson's second volume on Picasso confirms what his first suggested: that this is a masterpiece in the making, the most illuminating biography yet written on a twentieth-century visual artist and the only one that can sustain comparison with Painter on Proust, Ellman on Joyce or Edel on Henry James. Nobody has ever mined the facts of Picasso's life as deeply as Richardson or related them so cogently to his work. And the cant-free crispness of its writing - let alone Richardson's irrepressible eye for the offbeat or scandalous detail - makes it a continuous pleasure to read." (Robert Hughes)

"Magisterial...Richardson's ambitious project dwarfs all previous biographies of Picasso... [He] has a gift for telling pen-portraits and makes vivid an entire gallery of pioneering dealers and early collectors." (Frances Spalding Sunday Times)

"1907 is one of the great watershed dates in the history of modern art and modernism, seeing as it did the painting of Picasso's huge and stylised brothel scene, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon...Richardson covers these momentous ten years from 1907 to the end of the First World War with great elegance and quite authority. All the familiar figures of modernism pass by: Gertrude Stein, Apollinaire, Matisse, Derain, Satie, Cocteau, Diaghilev et al. We move effortlessly from scholarly art history through Picasso's turbulent relationships with his friends, dealers, mistresses to, for example, a perfect distillation of the differences in ambience between Montparnasse and Montmartre. What makes the two published volumes so outstanding is the sense of Picasso the man emerging - in all his complexity - alongside the superb analysis of Picasso the artist." (William Boyd Spectator)

Biographie de l'auteur :

John Richardson was born in London in 1924. He studied art at the Slade School but soon gave up painting for art criticism. In 1949 he moved to France, where he lived for the next twelve years, befriending Picasso, Braque, Léger, and Cocteau. In the early 1960s Richardson moved to New York, where he was appointed head of Christie's US operation, and eventually became a full-time writer and editor. He has published books on Manet and Braque and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. The first volume of A Life of Picasso, covering the years 1881-1906, was published in 1991 and won the Whitbread Prize. The second volume of A Life of Picasso, covering the years 1907-1917, was published in 1996.

In 1993 Richardson was made a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. In 1994-95 he served as the Slade Professor of Art at Oxford. Currently he divides his time between Connecticut and New York City, where is working on the third and fourth volumes of A Life of Picasso.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Random House Inc
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0394559185
• ISBN 13: 9780394559186
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 500