A Picasso Anthology: Documents, Criticism, Reminiscences

Description

Picasso's extraordinary capacity to work in a variety of mediums and styles amazed his critics since the first years of the century. This collection of critical and personal reactions to Picasso provides an account of the many innovations and changes of direction that baffled his contemporaries. It also reveals his working methods and attitudes.

Marilyn McCully is an American art historian based in London. Her books include Picasso: A Private Collection and The Art of Spanish Posters. She is the collaborating author of John Richardson's four-volume A Life of Picasso, and is also the editor of the exhibition catalog Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906.

"The hundred or so brief documents collected here, dating back to 1900, are a kind of Richter-scale recording of Picasso's impact on this century."--The New Yorker "Sheds light not only on Picasso, but also on those others--Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, and Salvador Dali--who interpreted and influenced the master's art."--The Wilson Quarterly