An edition of Picasso's world of children (1994)

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An edition of Picasso's world of children (1994)

Picasso's world of children

The theme of children and childhood, a highly popular subject with the great painters and sculptors of the past, has received comparatively little attention in twentieth-century art. Here, as in so many other respects, the work of Pablo Picasso stands out as a major exception. Picasso's many portraits and other depictions of children constitute one of the most immediately accessible and appealing facets of his extraordinarily varied oeuvre.

This fascinating new study by Werner Spies, one of the foremost connoisseurs of Picasso's work, examines the artist's approach to the subject of the child against the background of his turbulent personal life, the development of this restlessly innovative aesthetic thinking, an the general ideas about the significance of childhood and youth that have played such a key role in shaping modern culture.

Sumptuously illustrated, and packed with original and stimulating insights, the book offers an enticing introduction to Picasso's magical world of children, and to his visual universe as a whole.

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Language
English
Pages
126

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Picasso's world of children
1994, Prestel, Distributed by Neues Pub. Co.
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Table of Contents

Islands in the oeuvre
Childhood: a strategy of beginning
The early years and the Blue Period
Joyless children
The child as symbol
"There was never any more inception than there is now"
The disguises of the Rose Period
Primitivism and childhood
Cubism: the search for a world without childhood
The motif returns
Neoclassicism and stylistic pluralism
The courtly portrait of his firstborn
Private life and mythological projections
The dead children: Guernica and the Charnel House
The limits of representation
"First steps"
Objets trouves and toys
Entering the child's perspective
Late work.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 122).
Series statement from jacket.

Published in
Munich, New York, New York
Series
[Pegasus library]

Classifications

Library of Congress
N6853.P5 S6713 1994, N6853.P5S6713 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
126 p. :
Number of pages
126

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL539347M
Internet Archive
picassosworldofc0000spie
ISBN 10
3791313754
LCCN
96118158, gb94079569
OCLC/WorldCat
30724068
Library Thing
4941657
Goodreads
3077594

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