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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Prefazione

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Museu Picasso de Barcelona (Editore), Barcelona Museu Picasso (Editore), Museu Picasso Barcelona (Editore), Museu Picasso Barcelona (Editore)
• Autori: Barcelona Museum, Hayakawa Monta, Museu Picasso Barcelona
• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 08.11.2010
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Antiquariato
• EAN: 9780500093542
• ISBN: 978-0-500-09354-2
• Numero di pagine: 168
• Categorie: 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, eroticism, Japanese Art;Eroticism