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Picasso once said, "It is my misfortune--and probably my delight--to use things as my passions tell me." And so he did, throughout his long life, across a stylistically pluralist oeuvre in which his amorous life could be traced through the lines of women's faces. For Picasso always used his lovers as his models (or his models as his lovers, depending on your point of view), and Marie-Thérèse Walter was no exception. Picasso met the 17 year old in 1927, and she soon became his favorite model and muse, as well as his secret lover. Over the next ten years, Picasso intensified his sculptural and graphic work, stylistically ranging between classical and surrealist, went through an acrimonious and unsuccessful divorce with his wife Olga, and fathered a daughter named Maya with Marie-Thérèse, who lived in vain that one day Picasso would marry her. She hanged herself after his death. This publication, which features a multi-disciplinary selection of masterpieces by the artist, is the second in a series devoted to Picasso and Women; The Time with Françoise Gilot was published last year.Essay by Markus Müller.Hardcover, 9 x 10.5 in. / 240 pgs / 160 b&w. ... Read more

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Picasso in sunlight
This book superbly portrays Picasso as a man: his joie de vivre his love of women, his love of life, his guttural grasping at the meaning of life, love and beauty in its modern, cruel guise. Throughout the author refers toto real people: people who exist - people like you, and people like me:people who go down to the mall, people who eat ham and cheese baguettes,people who delve into the deeper things.... the ntherworld of life: love:the internet: humour; bullfighting, his mother his love , his daughter. ... Read more

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Pablo Picasso
Français : Pablo Picasso, de son nom complet Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (25 Octobre 1881 - 8 Avril 1973, était un artiste (peintre, sculteur...) espagnol.

English: Pablo Picasso, formally Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973) a Spanish painter, was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art.

Español: Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (Málaga 25 de octubre de 1881 - Mouguins 8 de abril de 1973) pintor español, uno de los artistas más reconocidos del siglo XX

Português: Pablo Picasso, de nome completo Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (25 de Outubro de 1881 - 8 de Abril de 1973), um pintor Espanhol, foi um dos mais reconhecidos mestres da arte do Século XX."

Polski: Pablo Picasso, prawidłowo Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (25 pażdziernika, 1881 - 8 kwietnia, 1973). Malarz, jest najbardziej rozpoznawalnym twórcą sztuki XX wieku.

Русский: Пабло Пикасо - изв. художник.
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Not in English
The description of this item says that this ebook is in English.
However, it is in German. ... Read more

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What's a genius anyway?
John Berger is a critic with a real sense of decency: never too high-falutin, smart and responsible.He asks us to see beautiful objects, not in their staid isolation in the museum setting, but in the context of social history.It is obvious that Picasso was a genius.He saw and drew things that evoke wonders and passions.But is that all?

The central essay here is "The Moment of Cubism."Berger paints a general portrait of a distinct era of possibility: artistic and social and political.The explosion of Cubism is but a moment in a larger moment of real revolution.Not just "ways of seeing" but ways of living, thinking, hoping.Berger reminds us that Picasso needed the times (Europe), he also, more specifically needed friends and support.After all, there were two who brought forth cubism; moreover, there were the likes of Cezanne.

Berger asks the question that is overlooked in the constant reverence of Picasso's potency (echoing Benjamin Buchloh on the "ciphers of regression"): was Picasso genius throughout his career or was that moment (historical and aesthetic) the real genius?

(For more on Berger, read his two inspired novels: "G." and "To the Wedding.") ... Read more

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Picasso was an extremely prolific artist, and there remain many little-known, rarely seen works that have been held in private collections. In the fall of 2001, Milans Palazzo Reale presents an exhibition of many of these works, which are also featured in this spectacular oversized art book. It is alive with splashes of brilliant color and is a distinguished addition to any art bookshelf, featuring 300 illustrations that cover oil paintings, aquatints, prints, sculpture, and terracottas, as well as textiles such as the Ballet Russe costumes Picasso created for Diaghilev. ... Read more

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Picasso: 200 Masterpieces from 1898 to 1972
Nice hardcover book with many color and black & white reproductions of the history of Picasso's work. ... Read more

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Forty years ago, the first time anyone thought to consider Picasso's theatrical work as a unified portfolio, Jean Cassou, then the Director of the Musee d'Arte Moderne in Paris, observed that the work occupied "a great place in his career. His whole genius, his entire work, including his still lifes, have a theatrical character." In his early years, Picasso discovered the theater as a source of inspiration and motifs. His subjects frequently came from carnivals and vaudeville, and he reveled in the conventions of commedia dell'arte figures such as the Harlequin and Pierrot. This fascination was not only reflected in the motifs of Picasso's countless paintings and drawings: Beginning in 1917, he began working intensively with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, creating his now-famous sets and costumes for the troupe. For Picasso, the stage proved to be an extraordinarily fertile ground, and performance the subject of ever more paintings and sculptures. Picasso and the Theatre features over 80 works dating between 1900 and 1930, and taps an elemental passion of this universally revered artist. ... Read more

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Theatre during the Art Revolution
In the early part of the 20th century, art underwent a series of wide-ranging experiments in abstraction and structure, and among the leading innovators was Picasso. Everything was open for challenge, and music and theatre were not immune. One of the significant and strangest multidisciplinary endeavors of the era was the union of Erik Satie's music with Picasso's costume and stage design, Leonide Massine's choreography, and Jean Cocteau's conception and script in the ballets "Parade" and "Mercure" performed by Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. [Since the 1970s, the Joffrey Ballet troupe revived as part of its repertoire "Parade" in its original form; it remains a stunning, unique work.] Picasso also was involved in ballets of Stravinsky and de Falla's Sombrero de Tres Picos [Le Tricorne].

This book, which I received as hard cover (the paperback description may be incorrect), is an outgrowth of a gallery exhibition that examined Picasso's interest in theatre and circus characters, such as the Harlequin of the Commedia dell'Arte and acrobats, his collaboration in theatre productions, and aspects of drama, music, and dance in his subsequent art. Richly illustrated with 251 illustrations, 192 in color, the book is bilingual in English and German presented as side by side columns. Six informative essays comprise the text whose themes are Artists and Saltimbanques; Cubism and the Stage; Return to Spain; Picasso and the Ballets Russes; Picasso Plays Picasso; and Reinventing the Classical. The figures include costume design studies, his line portraits of other artists and musicians, set designs, related paintings and sculpture, and photographs. This is a top quality edition in reproduction, text, and area focus, and will be of interest to historians and students of theatre and of art. I find it fascinating throughout. ... Read more

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This delightful children's book is a wonderful introduction to Picasso. It tells the true story of Antony Penrose, son of the photographer Lee Miller and the painter and writer Roland Penrose and his childhood friendship with the great artist. Some sixty-five enchanting illustrations accompany the text, including Picasso's most appealing artworks, plus evocative archive photography by Lee Miller. An inspiring look at the creative practices of an artist, this is an illustrated book to enthral and inspire young art fans of four and over. ... Read more

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Forty years ago, the first time anyone thought to consider Picasso's theatrical work as a unified portfolio, Jean Cassou, then the Director of the Musee d'Arte Moderne in Paris, observed that the work occupied "a great place in his career. His whole genius, his entire work, including his still lifes, have a theatrical character." In his early years, Picasso discovered the theater as a source of inspiration and motifs. His subjects frequently came from carnivals and vaudeville, and he reveled in the conventions of commedia dell'arte figures such as the Harlequin and Pierrot. This fascination was not only reflected in the motifs of Picasso's countless paintings and drawings: Beginning in 1917, he began working intensively with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, creating his now-famous sets and costumes for the troupe. For Picasso, the stage proved to be an extraordinarily fertile ground, and performance the subject of ever more paintings and sculptures. Picasso and the Theatre features over 80 works dating between 1900 and 1930, and taps an elemental passion of this universally revered artist. ... Read more

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Theatre during the Art Revolution
In the early part of the 20th century, art underwent a series of wide-ranging experiments in abstraction and structure, and among the leading innovators was Picasso. Everything was open for challenge, and music and theatre were not immune. One of the significant and strangest multidisciplinary endeavors of the era was the union of Erik Satie's music with Picasso's costume and stage design, Leonide Massine's choreography, and Jean Cocteau's conception and script in the ballets "Parade" and "Mercure" performed by Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. [Since the 1970s, the Joffrey Ballet troupe revived as part of its repertoire "Parade" in its original form; it remains a stunning, unique work.] Picasso also was involved in ballets of Stravinsky and de Falla's Sombrero de Tres Picos [Le Tricorne].

This book, which I received as hard cover (the paperback description may be incorrect), is an outgrowth of a gallery exhibition that examined Picasso's interest in theatre and circus characters, such as the Harlequin of the Commedia dell'Arte and acrobats, his collaboration in theatre productions, and aspects of drama, music, and dance in his subsequent art. Richly illustrated with 251 illustrations, 192 in color, the book is bilingual in English and German presented as side by side columns. Six informative essays comprise the text whose themes are Artists and Saltimbanques; Cubism and the Stage; Return to Spain; Picasso and the Ballets Russes; Picasso Plays Picasso; and Reinventing the Classical. The figures include costume design studies, his line portraits of other artists and musicians, set designs, related paintings and sculpture, and photographs. This is a top quality edition in reproduction, text, and area focus, and will be of interest to historians and students of theatre and of art. I find it fascinating throughout. ... Read more

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This delightful children's book is a wonderful introduction to Picasso. It tells the true story of Antony Penrose, son of the photographer Lee Miller and the painter and writer Roland Penrose and his childhood friendship with the great artist. Some sixty-five enchanting illustrations accompany the text, including Picasso's most appealing artworks, plus evocative archive photography by Lee Miller. An inspiring look at the creative practices of an artist, this is an illustrated book to enthral and inspire young art fans of four and over. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Pablo Picasso," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Pablo Picasso in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Pablo Picasso when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Pablo Picasso, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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One spring morning in 1957, veteran photojournalist David Douglas Duncan paid a visit to his friend and frequent photographic subject Pablo Picasso, at the artistÕs villa near Cannes. As copilot alongside Duncan in his Mercedes Gullwing 300 SL was the photographerÕs dachshund, Lump. Photographer and dog were close companions, but DuncanÕs nomadic lifestyle and his other dog Ñ a giant Afghan hound who had tormented the autocratic and temperamental Lump Ñ made home life in Rome difficult. When they arrived at PicassoÕs Villa La Californie that historic day, Lump decided that he had found paradise on earth, and that he would move in with Picasso, whether the artist wanted him to or not.

This is the background for an utterly original book that offers an uncommonly sensitive portrait of Picasso. Lump was immortalized in a Picasso portrait painted on a plate the day they met, but that was just the beginning. In a suite of 45 paintings reinterpreting Vel‡squezÕs masterpiece Las Meninas, Picasso replaced the impassive hound in the foreground with jaunty renderings of Lump. Fifteen of those paintings are reproduced here in full color, juxtaposed with DuncanÕs dramatic and intimate black-and-white photographs of Picasso and Lump, bringing full circle the odyssey of a fortunate dachshund who found his way from reluctant road warrior to furry and elongated icon of modern art. ... Read more

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Picasso & Lump: A Dachshund's Odyssey
Picasso & Lump: A Dachshund's Odyssey is a heartwarming read for the dachshund lover and any one else fond of Dogs and Picasso.He treated his little doxie as a good friend & muse.The photos are delightful.

Picasso & Lump
As an art and animal lover, this book was a treat to read and to linger over each photo, including the author/photographer's Gullwing Mercedes.I felt like a guest in Picasso's villa.This was to be a gift for my friends with two dogs...one being Bella, a mini-dachshund...but I couldn't part with it and purchased another book for them.

Beautiful Dachshund Love Story!
This is a great book ~ loved the photos and story of Picasso and his love for the little dachshund Lump! Any dachshund lover will appreciate this book. Makes a great gift! Highly recommended!!!!!

birthday gift
This purchase was a gift for a dachshund-obsessed friend's birthday.He loved the book and the photos, so I'm giving it 5-stars.As for the buying experience, the book came earlier than expected, so I'm satisfied.

Interesting little book
If you love all things Doxie andyouare not looking for just another silly picture book ( although there are great photos included) you'll love it. ... Read more

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Minou Was A Cat : )
As a child care provider and artist I highly recommend this book. If you have small children who love animals and books, this is a story they will love and ask for over and over.If you have friends who are teachers, principles, child care providers, etc. you will need to buy more than one copy of this book.From the minute you open the book you realize the words compliment the art and the art returns the favor. The story of Picasso and his cat Minou is nothing less than enchanting, whismical, and an opportunity for children to enter into the world of art, and history.

Beautiful.
Each image in this book is so rich. When I read it to my daughter, I always get sidetracked looking at all the detail and the amazing colors and the way the artist conveys so many different moods. I love the section in the back that talks about the paintings referenced in the book too.

Dream, and reach for the stars
Picasso's growth as an artist reaches young readers through his beloved pet. The illustrations are beautiful, playful.The plot: A kind act changes Picasso's perspective; painful adversity is overcome.My child clamored for repeated readings, and was transported by its scenes of a French circus.You'll be proud to have it on your child's shelf; an irresistible intro to fine art.

Delightful
My four-year-old daughter was fascinated by this story and wanted me to read it to her at least once a day while we had it from the library. I took the opportunity to check out a few other books of Picasso's art to show her that this was a story of someone real. The entree the book gave us into the world of Picasso's Blue Period was a genuinely enjoyable educational experience for her. It was a lot of fun to match the reproductions of Picasso's paintings with the pictures of the real thing in the books we brought home!

The story also opens possible discussion for other topics--poverty, artistic pursuits, caring and friendship. This is a rich and well-told story.

A Must-Have
The stunning illustrations make this book a must-have for both children and adult art-lovers. ... Read more

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Long recognized as one of the most significant paintings of the twentieth century, contributors to this volume consider Picasso'sLes Demoiselles d'Avignon from a variety of methodological and topical perspectives, including psychoanalytical, feminist, historical, and postcolonial. Through these various analyzes, the contributors explore the power and significance of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, situating the work within twentieth century art history and debates over Primitivism, sexuality, and stylistic change. ... Read more

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These handsomely illustrated volumes offer insight into the lives and works of those few unique individuals whose extraordinary creative genius has affected suceeding generations of artists and altered the way we view the world around us.

Here is a pictorial celebration of Picasso's life, work, and manifold influences, from the evocative images of his Blue and Rose periods to his forays into Cubism, and on to the prolific, diverse, and unique output of his mature years. ... Read more