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A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years: 1933-1943 by John Richardson (English)
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307266664
ISBN-13
9780307266668
eBay Product ID (ePID)
64189935
Product Key Features
Book Title
Life of Picasso IV: the Minotaur Years : 1933-1943
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
Individual Artists / General, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), History / Contemporary (1945-), Artists, Architects, Photographers, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Biography & Autobiography
Book Series
Alife of Picasso Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
30.5 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
7.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-005714
Reviews
"A fluent writer with a gift for narrative and a sensitive ability to read the artist's work in relation to his life...The decade covered in this volume, which turns on Picasso's identification with the part-beast, part-man mythical Minotaur, is a tumultuous one, both in public and in private life... [it is] deftly presented as Richardson moves from the man to his circle to his art to larger historical events." --Siri Hustvedt, The New York Times Book Review "Richardson not only captures Picasso's genius in this work, but is brilliant himself in his observation and prose; reading his work can feel akin to standing in front of a great piece of art."-- Town and Country "All the virtues of the first three volumes--the careful research and scrupulous deployment of information, and the often insightful discussion of works of art--are on display in volume IV." --Karen Wilkin, The New Criterion "A well-analyzed finale. ...Richardson is strongest in his intensely detailed examination of Picasso's works, major and minor alike...Fans of the series will find this a satisfying conclusion." -- Publishers Weekly "The author's unique, extensive knowledge and insider information about Picasso--both the man and artist--informs insightful explications of the nuances and symbolism in Picasso's works....This final, lavishly illustrated volume softly slips away with Richardson continuing to chronicle Picasso obsessively creating. A quiet, satisfying ending to a masterful accomplishment." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Richardson's youthful curiosity bore fruit in his multivolume Life of Picasso , the greatest biography of an artist ever written. The Minotaur Years, 1933-1945 ...marks the last installment in this heroic enterprise...packed...with improbable characters, astonishing revelations, and striking insights... The Minotaur Years represents the triumphant conclusion of a great biographer's career." --Pepe Karmel, Gagosian "A fluent writer with a gift for narrative and a sensitive ability to read the artist's work in relation to his life...The decade covered in this volume, which turns on Picasso's identification with the part-beast, part-man mythical Minotaur, is a tumultuous one, both in public and in private life... [it is] deftly presented as Richardson moves from the man to his circle to his art to larger historical events." --Siri Hustvedt, The New York Times Book Review "Richardson not only captures Picasso's genius in this work, but is brilliant himself in his observation and prose; reading his work can feel akin to standing in front of a great piece of art."-- Town and Country "All the virtues of the first three volumes--the careful research and scrupulous deployment of information, and the often insightful discussion of works of art--are on display in volume IV." --Karen Wilkin, The New Criterion "A well-analyzed finale. ...Richardson is strongest in his intensely detailed examination of Picasso's works, major and minor alike...Fans of the series will find this a satisfying conclusion." -- Publishers Weekly "The author's unique, extensive knowledge and insider information about Picasso--both the man and artist--informs insightful explications of the nuances and symbolism in Picasso's works....This final, lavishly illustrated volume softly slips away with Richardson continuing to chronicle Picasso obsessively creating. A quiet, satisfying ending to a masterful accomplishment." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Richardson not only captures Picasso's genius in this work, but is brilliant himself in his observation and prose; reading his work can feel akin to standing in front of a great piece of art."-- Town and Country "All the virtues of the first three volumes--the careful research and scrupulous deployment of information, and the often insightful discussion of works of art--are on display in volume IV." --Karen Wilkin, The New Criterion "A well-analyzed finale. ...Richardson is strongest in his intensely detailed examination of Picasso's works, major and minor alike...Fans of the series will find this a satisfying conclusion." -- Publishers Weekly "The author's unique, extensive knowledge and insider information about Picasso--both the man and artist--informs insightful explications of the nuances and symbolism in Picasso's works....This final, lavishly illustrated volume softly slips away with Richardson continuing to chronicle Picasso obsessively creating. A quiet, satisfying ending to a masterful accomplishment." -- Kirkus Reviews, "The author's unique, extensive knowledge and insider information about Picasso--both the man and artist--informs insightful explications of the nuances and symbolism in Picasso's works....This final, lavishly illustrated volume softly slips away with Richardson continuing to chronicle Picasso obsessively creating. A quiet, satisfying ending to a masterful accomplishment." -- Kirkus Reviews
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
22
Series Volume Number
4
Dewey Decimal
709.2 B
Synopsis
The beautifully illustrated fourth volume of Picasso's life--set in France and Spain during the Spanish Civil War and World War II--covers friendships with the surrealist painters; artistic inspiration around Guernica and the Minotaur; and his muses Marie-Thérèse, Dora Maar, and Françoise Gilot; and much more. Including 271 stunning illustrations and drawing on original and exhaustive research from interviews and never-before-seen material in the Picasso family archives, this book opens with a visit by the Hungarian-French photographer Brassaï to Picasso's chateau in Normandy, Boisgeloup, where he would take his iconic photographs of the celebrated plaster busts of Marie-Thérèse, Picasso's mistress and muse. Picasso was contributing to André Breton's Minotaur magazine and he was also spending more time with the likes of Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, Lee Miller, and the poet Paul Éluard, in Paris as well as in the south of France. It was during this time that Picasso began writing surrealist poetry and became obsessed with the image of himself as the mythic Minotaur--head of a bull, body of a man--and created his most famous etching, Minotauromachie. Richardson shows us the artist is as prolific as ever, painting Marie-Thérèse, but also painting the surrealist photographer Dora Maar who has become a muse, a collaborator and more. In April 1937, the bombing of the town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War inspires Picasso's vast masterwork of the same name, which he paints in just a few weeks for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World's Fair. When the Nazis occupy Paris in 1940, Picasso chooses to remain in the city despite the threat that his art would be confiscated. In 1943, Picasso meets Françoise Gilot who would replace Dora, and as Richardson writes, "rejuvenate his psyche, reawaken his imagery and inspire a brilliant sequence of paintings." As always, Richardson tells Picasso's story through his work during this period, analyzing how it shows what the artist was feeling and thinking. His fascinating and accessible narrative immerses us in one of the most exciting moments in twentieth century cultural history, and brings to a close the definitive and critically acclaimed account of one of the world's most celebrated artists.
LC Classification Number
N6853.P5R56 2007
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