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Life and Death in Picasso: Still Life / Figure, c. 1907-1933

Hardback

Main Details

Title Life and Death in Picasso: Still Life / Figure, c. 1907-1933
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Christopher Green
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 269,Width 240
Category/GenreArt and design styles - c 1900 to c 1960
Painting and paintings
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9780500093481
ClassificationsDewey:759.6
Audience
General
Illustrations 9 Illustrations, black and white; 124 Illustrations, color

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 5 May 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In this groundbreaking new study of the leading artist of the twentieth century, Christopher Green explores Picasso's fascination with ideas about the living and the dead. He shows how Picasso oscillated between the animate and the inanimate, creating objects that 'live' and figures that are 'dead' as objects. Covering the period from the creation of the Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907 to the artist's association with the Surrealists in the 1930s, the book offers a journey through Picasso's imagination and reveals - by way of Freud, Andre Breton and Guillaume Apollinaire, among theirs - the ideas and reflections associated with life and death in his work. Published in association with the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, the book also includes an essay on Picasso's biomorphic motifs by the leading Spanish critic J.F. Yvars.

Author Biography

Christopher Green is Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He is the author of numerous books, including Picasso's Desmoiselles d'Avignon and Picasso:Architecture and Vertigo.

Reviews

'Green's deep knowledge and clear prose make him a fine guide, and the works illustrated in this handsomely produced volume are among the most intriguing and powerfully articulated in Picasso's entire career' - The Art Newspaper 'Green's careful observation and clear reasoning illuminate work from Museu Picasso, Barcelona ... an adept introduction to aspects of animation, doubling and `rhyming' in Picasso's art' - The Art Book