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| Title | : | A Life of Picasso, Volume I: 1881-1906 |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.80 (564 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0394531922 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 548 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-09 |
| Language | : | English |
Richard S. Sullivan said Monumental but readable too. Richardson in his landmark biography of Picasso gingerly walks through the minefields that have been laid in the 100+ years that Picasso has been on the art scene. Picasso is near enough to being our contemporary that it would have been nearly impossible for Richardson to have treated him fairly in the minds of many. One of the foremost issues recently raised, is his attitude towards women and his treatment of his lovers and wives. As for what can be gleaned from this and Vol II, Picasso was probably about average in this respect for a man of his time. Richardson seems. Four Stars R. W. Tether A very good and extensive history of Picasso. "Brings to life the great artist's first 25 years" according to Ian Muldoon. I respond as a general reader and can attest that reading this work was very much like engaging in a talk with an erudite and witty and sympathic art loving friend. I say engaging as Mr Richardsom anticipates questions and provides explanations. He is also revealing, at least to my mind, about many of the important figures of the early 20th century, such as Gertrude Stein, but as well, the social and artistic revolutions that were occuring. Picasso himself, however, is determinedly apolitical.The illustrations are useful, plentiful and conveniently located adjacent to
From Publishers Weekly Remarkably intimate yet epic in sweep, this astonishing, continually engaging biography (first installment of a four-volume opus) neither glorifies Picasso nor paints him as an ogre. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. It's one of the few books truly indispensable to understanding Picasso's artistic and spiritual growth. Like his much-maligned father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, an easy-going art teacher, Pablo, in Barcelona and Montmarte, was the star of a tertulia , a circle of cronies, who met regularly at a cafe to gossip and exchange views. As we watch the maternally overprotected prodigy transform himself into the daring, confident bohemian who took Paris by storm, Richardson ably untangles the skeinok of friendships and love affairs that Picasso transmuted into the personal mythology overflowing his canvases. . Crammed with new insights, this synthesis weds an irresistible narrative to hundreds of wonderfully apposite photographs an
The first volume of his Life of Picasso was published to wide acclaim in 1991 and won England's prestigious Whitbread Prize. Besides having organized various exhibitions, he has written books on Manet and Braque and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. In 1949 he moved to Provence, where he helped the collector Douglas Cooper transform the C
This first volume of the definitive four-volume biography by one of the world's leading Picasso experts. This first volume takes Picasso from his earliest years in Catalonia through his beginning as an artist to his discovery of Cubism and his involvement with the artistic and literary life of Paris.
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