- Hardcover: 512 pages
- Publisher: Monacelli Press (17 Nov 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1580932576
- ISBN-13: 978-1580932578
- Product Dimensions: 31 x 5.6 x 40.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 690,089 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Art critic and scholar Philippe Dagen approaches Picasso as a subject through a series of questions. What does it mean to be an artist in the twentieth century? What does it mean to be an artist in the time of newspapers and museums, in a time when the art market has expanded to reach the entire western world? Is modern civilization so different that it gives an artist a new attitude and causes him to redefine his role for the public, the market, and, therefore, to invent entirely new artistic practices?
Picasso is considered here in view of this last, and most probable, hypothesis. He is a product of his situation and time, in the broadest sense of the term. Refusing to confine himself to his studio or the small artistic community in Paris, Picasso responded forcefully to world affairs, giving pictoral and sculptural form to the passions and events he witnessed around him. This is a thoroughly modern Picasso, constantly and consciously confronting the modernity of the world.
Dagen's original exploration of his techniques, materials, and images shows how the artist both allowed modernity to in?ltrate his work and at the same time to react against it. Picasso moved between acceptance and rejection, a perpetual confrontation that is, perhaps, the most satisfying explanation of his will to create change that drove him to leave the most varied and diverse body of work in the entire history of art.
Picasso is considered here in view of this last, and most probable, hypothesis. He is a product of his situation and time, in the broadest sense of the term. Refusing to confine himself to his studio or the small artistic community in Paris, Picasso responded forcefully to world affairs, giving pictoral and sculptural form to the passions and events he witnessed around him. This is a thoroughly modern Picasso, constantly and consciously confronting the modernity of the world.
Dagen's original exploration of his techniques, materials, and images shows how the artist both allowed modernity to in?ltrate his work and at the same time to react against it. Picasso moved between acceptance and rejection, a perpetual confrontation that is, perhaps, the most satisfying explanation of his will to create change that drove him to leave the most varied and diverse body of work in the entire history of art.
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Format:Hardcover
I've always wanted a Picasso book that has the lot. This is it! The only Picasso book you will ever need. It's a large heavy book spanning all of Picasso's work, and full of loads of colour illustrations and insight-full essays. The quality of the book is also amazing and really well made. You feel like your holding a precious book when flicking though this one. Defiantly one of those books you'll be glad you bought 40 years down the line!
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Absolutely superb!
12 Nov 2010
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I concur with the first reviewer of this amazing Picasso book. Yes, there are literally hundreds of books on the Spanish master, some bad, some very good but if you are looking for an all-in-one, quality, comprehensive monograph this latest Monacelli publication will do it. The text is accessible and the pictures well-chosen and irreprochably reproduced. Yes, yes, it is a huge, heavy book and quite expensive but it is all well worth it. This is the kind of book you'll be happy you bought 30 or 40 years from now.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Beautiful book with magnificent reproductions
10 Oct 2010
Format:Hardcover
It amazes me that no one has reviewed this book since it came out in November of last year. I have wanted to add a comprehensive book on Picasso's work to my art book collection for a long time. There are literally hundreds of books out there on his work. I choose this one because of it's comprehensive content across the changing modalities of Picasso's work through out his life. The reproductions are magnificent but then this is the norm for any book published by the Monacelli Press. The analyses by Phillippe Dagen is approachable, illuminating, and not overly dense for the non-intellectual art lover. I recommend this book highly.
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