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A Life of Picasso Ser.: A Life of Picasso II: the Cubist Rebel : 1907-1916 by John Richardson (2007, Trade Paperback)

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In the second volume of his Life of Picasso , Richardson reveals the young Picasso in the Baudelairean role of "the painter of modern life." Never before have Picasso's revolutionary vision, technical versatility, prodigious achievements, and, not least, his sardonic humor been analyzed with such clarity. Hence his great breakthrough painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon , with which this book opens. As well as portraying Picasso as a revolutionary, Richardson analyzes the more compassionate side of his genius. The misogynist of posthumous legend turns out to have been surprisingly vulnerable--more often sinned against than sinning. Heartbroken at the death of his mistress Eva, Picasso tried desperately to find a wife. Richardson recounts the untold story of how his two great loves of 1915-17 successively turned him down. These disappointments, as well as his horror at the outbreak of World War I and the wounds it inflicted on his closest friends, Braque and Apollinaire, shadowed his painting and drove him off to work for the Ballets Russes in Rome and Naples--back to the ancient world. In this volume we see the artist's life and work during the crucial decade of 1907-17, a period during which Picasso and Georges Braque devised what has come to be known as cubism and in doing so engendered modernism. Thanks to the author's friendship with Picasso and some of the women in his life, as well as Braque and their dealer, D. H. Kahnweiler, and other associates, he has had access to untapped sources and unpublished material. In The Cubist Rebel, Richardson also introduces us to key figures in Picasso's life who have been totally overlooked by previous biographers. Among these are the artist's Chilean patron, collector, and mother figure, Eugenia Errázuriz, as well as two fiancées: the loveable Geneviève Laporte and the promiscuous bisexual painter Irène Lagut. By harnessing biography to art history, he has managed to crack the code of cubism more successfully than any of his predecessors. And by bringing fresh light to bear on the artist's private life, he has succeeded in coming up with a new view of this paradoxical man and of his paradoxical work. Never before have Picasso's revolutionary vision, technical versatility, prodigious achievements, and, not least, his sardonic humor been analyzed with such clarity.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375711503
ISBN-13
9780375711503
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59037232

Product Key Features

Book Title
Life of Picasso II: the Cubist Rebel : 1907-1916
Author
John Richardson
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, European, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Historical
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art
Number of Pages
512 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
7.2in
Item Weight
31.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Series Volume Number
2
Lc Classification Number
N6853.P5r56 2007
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2007-005714
Dewey Decimal
709.2 B
Series
Alife of Picasso Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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