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A life of Picasso
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307266651 (v. 3)
- ISBN: 9780394531922 (v. 1)
- ISBN: 9780224030243 (v. 1)
- ISBN: 9780394559186 (v. 2)
- ISBN: 0394531922 (v. 1)
- ISBN: 0224030248 (v. 1)
- ISBN: 0394559185 (v. 2)
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Physical Description:
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v. <1-3> : ill ; 26 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c1991-<2007>
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | v. 1. 1881-1906 -- v. 2. 1907-1917. -- v. 3. The triumphant years, 1917-1932. |
| Awards Note: | Whitebread Book of the Year Award, 1991. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Picasso, Pablo -- 1881-1973 Artists -- France -- Biography Artists -- France -- Biography |
| Genre: | Whitbread Book of the Year Award. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Camosun College Library.
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- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lansdowne Library | N 6853 P5 R56 2007 V.1 (Text) | 26040002970644 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - | ||
| Lansdowne Library | N 6853 P5 R56 2007 V.2 (Text) | 26040002970651 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - | ||
| Lansdowne Library | N 6853 P5 R56 2007 V.3 (Text) | 26040002970669 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The third in a multi-volume study of the life and work of Pablo Picasso captures the artist at the height of his talent in prewar Europe producing sets and costumes for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, working in Paris with an avant-garde group that included Miró and Braque, and spending summers in the south of France with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and others. 60,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
A study of the life and work of Pablo Picasso captures the artist from his early life in Mâalaga and Barcelona, through his revolutionary Cubist period, to the height of his talent in prewar Europe. - Book News
In this continuation of his 1991 and 1996 volumes on Picasso (v. I, 1881-1906; v. II, 1907-1917), Richardson, who knew Picasso in the 1950s and 1960s, traces Picasso's life from ages 35-50 in Italy and France. He interprets influences on him in this primarily neoclassical period--including his relationships with women, and works culminating in Picasso's 1932 retrospective show that confirmed him as leader of the modern art movement. The biography includes art illustrations, and photos of family and famous friends. As Picasso lived to 1973, another volume is due. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - Random House, Inc.
The long-awaited third volume of John Richardsonâs definitive biography of Pablo Picasso combines the critical astuteness, exhaustive research, and stunning narrative that made the first two volumes an art-historical breakthrough as well as a pleasure to read.
The Triumphant Years takes up the artistâs life in 1917, when Picasso and Cocteau left wartime Paris for Rome to work with Diaghilevâs Ballets Russes on their revolutionary production of Parade. Visits to Naples, above all to the Farnese marbles in the Museo Nazionale, would leave Picasso with a lifelong obsession with classical sculpture as well as the self-referential commedia dellâarte. After returning to Paris and marrying one of Diaghilevâs ballerinas, Olga Khokhlova, he abandoned bohemia for the drawing rooms of Paris. Hence, his so-called Duchess period, which coincided with his switch to neoclassicism, and would ultimately be absorbed into a metamorphic form of cubism.
In the summer of 1923, Picasso and his American friends Gerald and Sara Murphy transformed the French Riviera from a winter into a summer resort, when they persuaded the proprietor of the Hôtel du Cap at Antibes to keep the place open for the summer. In doing so, they made the Riviera Europeâs major playground. Mediterraneanism was in Picassoâs bones. Born in Málaga, he would always identify with this inland sea.
In 1927 the artistâs life underwent a major change; he abandoned society for a life out of the spotlight with a beautiful seventeen-year-old girl, Marie-Thérèse Walter. His erotic obsession with Marie-Thérèse would result in an ever-growing antipathy for his neurasthenic, understandably jealous wife. Balletic clues have enabled Richardson to identify a number of baffling figure-paintings as portrayals of Olga and reinterpret the work of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Picassoâs passionate love for his mistress and his passionate hatred for his wife can be fully understood only in light of each other.
The last three chapters constitute an annus mirabilisâspring 1931 to spring 1932âduring which the artist celebrated his fiftieth birthday. Challenged to scale new heights by the passage of time, Picasso lived up to his shamanic belief that painting should have a magic function. In the course of this year, he reinvented sculpture and to a great extent his own imagery in a bid to Picassify the classical tradition. The resultant retrospective in Paris and Zurich in the summer of 1932 confirmed Picasso as the leader of the modern movement.
