Picasso
Style and Meaning
(Sprache: Englisch)
An award-winning study of Picasso by a prime authority on the artist.
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An award-winning study of Picasso by a prime authority on the artist.
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is notorious for various forms of excess - excess in his love life, an excessive output, an excessively inconsistent style. In this groundbreaking book Elizabeth Cowling draws on her exceptional knowledge as an authority on Picasso to argue that he came to equate stylistic consistency with sterility. Abandoning the traditional use of subject matter to achieve variety and meaning, Picasso gradually reduced his to a handful of standardized motifs and used a vast array of different styles as the principal means of communicating ideas and feelings. In short, style is meaning in Picasso's art; his notoriously mercurial nature found expression in stylistic variety and experimentation. With rare intelligence and clarity, the author has woven biography and analysis into a compelling narrative. The 600 illustrations include all of Picasso's major works up to the beginning of World War II, and these are juxtaposed with their sources - Old Masters, contemporaryartists, found objects and Picasso's own drawings and sketches - to make a visually telling counterpoint to the arguments of the text. Scholars familiar with Picasso's work will find Cowling's fresh insights a revelation and readers new to Picasso will come away with a profound understanding of both Picasso and his art.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Picasso “
Introduction: A Painter without Style; 1. The Art Student 1892-1898; 2. The Symbolist 1899-1904; 3. Ancestral Voices 1904-1908; 4. The Styles of Cubism 1908-1914; 5. Times of Change 1914-1918; 6. Cubism after the War 1918-1924; 7. In Dialogue with the Past 1918-1924; 8. In Surrealist Company 1924-1934; 9. Offensive and Defensive Weapons 1935-1940; Epilogue: La Comedie humaine; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Autoren-Porträt von Elizabeth Cowling
Elizabeth Cowling teaches Art History at the University of Edinburgh. A specialist in Picasso since the mid 1980s, she has been involved in research on this book for nearly 10 years. A curator of the exhibition 'Picasso: Sculptor/Painter' (Tate Gallery, London, 1994), she was also co-curator of the 'Matisse/Picasso' exhibition (Tate Modern, London; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; MoMA, New York, 2002-3).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Elizabeth Cowling
- 2004, 704 Seiten, 500 farbige Abbildungen, 100 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, 119 Abbildungen, Maße: 21,1 x 24,6 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Phaidon
- ISBN-10: 0714842931
- ISBN-13: 9780714842936
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2004
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Ein wirklich nuanciertes Herangehen an das schier überwältigende Werk Picassos [...] so fesselnd geschrieben, dass man das Buch nicht mehr aus der Hand legen möchte." (Apollo)"Frau Cowling versteht es, Detail und Synthese in schöner Ausgewogenheit miteinander zu verbinden. Ihre wunderbar klaren und eingehenden Analysen berühren fast jeden Aspekt im Schaffen Picassos." (The Art Newspaper)
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