Secret Images - Picasso and the Japanese Erotic Print

Published to accompany the recent successful exhibition at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Secret Images sheds exciting new light on Picasso''s work - his connection with Japanese art. Neglected by critical studies, Picasso was owned more than sixty erotic Japanese prints, and a selection of these are shown for the first time in the book - alongside Picasso''s own prints and drawings. Illustrated with images by both Japanese printmakers and the Western artists who followed in their stead, the book features essays by Hayakawa Monta, Richard Bru, Malen Gual and Diana Widmaier Picasso.

List of contents

Acknowledgments Foreword by Jordi Hereu • Preface by Pepe Serra ‘Ukiyo-e Shunga’ by Hayakawa Monta • ‘Ukiyo-e and Japonisme in the Young Picasso’s Circle’ by Ricard Bru • ‘Tentacles of Love and Death: From Hokusai to Picasso’ by Ricard Bru • ‘Dialogue with Japanese Art’ by Malén Gual • ‘The Provence of Pablo Picasso’s Collection of Erotic Japanese Prints’ by Diana Widmaier Picasso • ‘The Collection of Philippe Berthelot’ by Ricard Bru and Malén Gual • Description and Analysis of Exhibited Works • Chronology • Bibliography • Sources of Illustration

About the author

The Museu Picasso located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, houses one of the most extensive collections of artworks by the 20th-century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.

Summary

Published to accompany the recent successful exhibition at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Secret Images sheds exciting new light on Picasso's work - his connection with Japanese art. Neglected by critical studies, Picasso was owned more than sixty erotic Japanese prints, and a selection of these are shown for the first time in the book - alongside Picasso’s own prints and drawings. Illustrated with images by both Japanese printmakers and the Western artists who followed in their stead, the book features essays by Hayakawa Monta, Richard Bru, Malén Gual and Diana Widmaier Picasso.

Foreword

An important work on a hitherto neglected aspect of Picasso’s oeuvre

Product details

• Authors: Barcelona Museum, Hayakawa Monta, Museu Picasso Barcelona
• Assisted by: Museu Picasso Barcelona (Editor), Barcelona Museu Picasso (Editor), Museu Picasso Barcelona (Editor), Museu Picasso de Barcelona (Editor)
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2010
• EAN: 9780500093542
• ISBN: 978-0-500-09354-2
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; Social sciences, law, business; Japan, ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / Subjects & Themes / Erotica, ART / Asian / Japanese, ART / Prints, History of Art, Painting & paintings, Prints & printmaking, Individual artists, art monographs, Cubism, Art & Design Styles: Cubism, Prints and printmaking, Paintings and painting, Erotic art, Japanese Art;Eroticism