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Read [Larry Witham Book] * Picasso and the Chess Player: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and the Battle for the Soul of Modern Art Online ! PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Picasso and the Chess Player: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and the Battle for the Soul of Modern Art A great source for bringing art history into focus I was unsure how there was a connection between Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, but this author has done a great job of putting their lives into perspective with the times they lived in. The book added a great deal to my understanding of both artists and their works of art. It definitely increased my underst]
| Title | : | Picasso and the Chess Player: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and the Battle for the Soul of Modern Art |
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (582 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611682533 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 372 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
The New York Armory Show art exhibition unveiled Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, a “sensation of sensations” that prompted Americans to declare Duchamp the leader of cubism, the voice of modern art. Picasso and the Chess Player is the story of how Picasso and Duchamp came to define the epochal debate between modern and conceptual art—a drama that features a who’s who of twentieth-century art and culture, including Henri Matisse, Gertrude Stein, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, and Andy Warhol. In telling the story, Larry Witham weaves two great art biographies into one tumultuous century.. Over his long lifetime, Picasso pioneere
A great source for bringing art history into focus I was unsure how there was a connection between Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, but this author has done a great job of putting their lives into perspective with the times they lived in. The book added a great deal to my understanding of both artists and their works of art. It definitely increased my underst
“Witham places his subjects in the context of both their own work and the aesthetic debates and movements of the early to late 20th century, with the aim of revealing how Picasso and Duchamp became ‘monuments and myths,’ after their deaths. While Picasso ‘democratized art’ for the masses to appreciate, it is Duchamp who set the ‘intellectual horizon’ for ‘postmodern’ art professionals. A convincing and highly readable study whose juxtapositions create its originality.”—Publishers Weekly
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