Picasso: Style and MeaningPhaidon Press, 2002 - 703 pages Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is notorious for various forms of excess - excess in his love life, an excessive output, an excessively inconsistent style. In this groundbreaking book Elizabeth Cowling draws on her exceptional knowledge as an authority on Picasso to argue that he came to equate stylistic consistency with sterility. Abandoning the traditional use of subject matter to achieve variety and meaning, Picasso gradually reduced his to a handful of standardized motifs and used a vast array of different styles as the principal means of communicating ideas and feelings. In short, style is meaning in Picasso's art; his notoriously mercurial nature found expression in stylistic variety and experimentation. With rare intelligence and clarity, the author has woven biography and analysis into a compelling narrative. The 600 illustrations include all of Picasso's major works up to the beginning of World War II, and these are juxtaposed with their sources - Old Masters, contemporary artists, found objects and Picasso's own drawings and sketches - to make a visually telling counterpoint to the arguments of the text. Scholars familiar with Picasso's work will find Cowling's fresh insights a revelation and readers new to Picasso will come away with a profound understanding of both Picasso and his art. |
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... CUBISM ' will have ceased to have more than a nominative value , indicating in the history of contemporary painting the researches of certain painters between 1907 and 1914. To refuse to recognize the importance of the Cubist movement ...
... Cubist after 1918 and Picasso matched that complexity in his new Cubist paintings , which vary strikingly according to the different motives he pursued in making them . Le Cubisme d'Antan Towards the end of September 1918 Picasso and ...
... Cubism . In practice , furthermore , a Cubist structure was no guarantee of rationality , harmony , serenity or order , for Picasso often used the Cubist style for works which are profoundly transgressive or riddled with paradox and ...
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Contents | 5 |
The Art Student 18921898 | 32 |
The Symbolist 18991904 58 | 81 |
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