A Life of Picasso Volume II - 1907 1917: The Painter of Modern Life

Informationen zum Autor John Richardson has written books on Manet and Braque, and has been a contributor to the New York Review of Books , the New Yorker and Vanity Fair . The first volume of his Life of Picasso won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1991. In 1993 he was made a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. In 1994 - 95 he served as the Slade Professor of Art at Oxford University. He lives between Conneticut and New York City. Klappentext Intends to recreate the Pablo Picasso's life and work during the decade of 1907-17 - a period during which the artist and Georges Braque invented Cubism and to that extent engendered modernism. Bringing a fresh light to bear on the artist's sensationalised private life, this title presents a view of this paradoxical man of his paradoxical work. Zusammenfassung Intends to recreate the Pablo Picasso's life and work during the decade of 1907-17 - a period during which the artist and Georges Braque invented Cubism and to that extent engendered modernism. Bringing a fresh light to bear on the artist's sensationalised private life, this title presents a view of this paradoxical man of his paradoxical work.

Product details

• Authors: John Richardson
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.2009
• EAN: 9781845951566
• ISBN: 978-1-84595-156-6
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 184 mm x 229 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Life of Picasso
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, History of Art, Social and cultural history, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Individual artists, art monographs, Cubism, C 1900 - C 1914, Art & Design Styles: Cubism