Picasso and truth : from Cubism to Guernica

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Label

Picasso and truth : from Cubism to Guernica

Title remainder

from Cubism to Guernica

Statement of responsibility

T.J. Clark

Creator

• Clark, T. J., (Timothy J)

Subject

• Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation

Language

eng

Summary

Picasso and Truth offers a breathtaking and original new look at the most significant artist of the modern era. From Pablo Picasso's early The Blue Room to the later Guernica, eminent art historian T. J. Clark offers a striking reassessment of the artist's paintings from the 1920s and 1930s. Why was the space of a room so basic to Picasso's worldview? And what happened to his art when he began to feel that room-space become too confined--too little exposed to the catastrophes of the twentieth century? Clark explores the role of space and the interior, and the battle between intimacy and monstrosity, in Picasso's art. Based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of Art, this lavishly illustrated volume remedies the biographical and idolatrous tendencies of most studies on Picasso, reasserting the structure and substance of the artist's work. With compelling insight, Clark focuses on three central works--the large-scale Guitar and Mandolin on a Table (1924), The Three Dancers (1925), and The Painter and His Model (1927)--and explores Picasso's answer to Nietzsche's belief that the age-old commitment to truth was imploding in modern European culture. Masterful in its historical contextualization, Picasso and Truth rescues Picasso from the celebrity culture that trivializes his accomplishments and returns us to the tragic vision of his art--humane and appalling, naïve and difficult, in mourning for a lost nineteenth century, yet utterly exposed to the hell of Europe between the wars

Member of

• A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts, 2009
• Bollingen series, 35:58

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

709.2

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

N6853.P5

LC item number

C595 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

• The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts
• Bollingen series

Series volume

• 2009
• XXXV: 58