Picasso

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There have been many books about this astonishing artist, most of them written as celebrations of his creative abundance. Tim Hilton has a more challenging purpose: to define Picasso's achievement and his place within twentieth-century art.

Timothy Hilton has been an art critic for the Guardian and Independent on Sunday and has written art history books on Pre-Raphaelitism and Picasso among others.

'A stimulating and stringent work by an exceptional critic' - Sunday Telegraph 'New issues and others that seem written to death have been given the vigour to create new interest' - Times Literary Supplement 'A scholarly work, full of acute observation ... very well illustrated' - The Artist 'Brisk, discriminatory and full of good observations' - Observer