Picasso And The Painting That Shocked The World
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Picasso And The Painting That Shocked The World
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Author : Miles J. Unger
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 2019-03-26
Picasso And The Painting That Shocked The World written by Miles J. Unger and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One of The Christian Science Monitor’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 “An engrossing read…a historically and psychologically rich account of the young Picasso and his coteries in Barcelona and Paris” (The Washington Post) and how he achieved his breakthrough and revolutionized modern art through his masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. In 1900, eighteen-year-old Pablo Picasso journeyed from Barcelona to Paris, the glittering capital of the art world. For the next several years he endured poverty and neglect before emerging as the leader of a bohemian band of painters, sculptors, and poets. Here he met his first true love and enjoyed his first taste of fame. Decades later Picasso would look back on these years as the happiest of his long life. Recognition came first from the avant-garde, then from daring collectors like Leo and Gertrude Stein. In 1907, Picasso began the vast, disturbing masterpiece known as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Inspired by the painting of Paul Cézanne and the inventions of African and tribal sculpture, Picasso created a work that captured the disorienting experience of modernity itself. The painting proved so shocking that even his friends assumed he’d gone mad, but over the months and years it exerted an ever greater fascination on the most advanced painters and sculptors, ultimately laying the foundation for the most innovative century in the history of art. In Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World, Miles J. Unger “combines the personal story of Picasso’s early years in Paris—his friendships, his romances, his great ambition, his fears—with the larger story of modernism and the avant-garde” (The Christian Science Monitor). This is the story of an artistic genius with a singular creative gift. It is “riveting…This engrossing book chronicles with precision and enthusiasm a painting with lasting impact in today’s art world” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), all of it played out against the backdrop of the world’s most captivating city.
Artcurious
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Author : Jennifer Dasal
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Artcurious written by Jennifer Dasal and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with Art categories.
A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious podcast We're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handbags, scarves, and dorm-room posters. But did you also know that Monet and his cohort were trailblazing rebels whose works were originally deemed unbelievably ugly and vulgar? And while you probably know the tale of Vincent van Gogh's suicide, you may not be aware that there's pretty compelling evidence that the artist didn't die by his own hand but was accidentally killed--or even murdered. Or how about the fact that one of Andy Warhol's most enduring legacies involves Caroline Kennedy's moldy birthday cake and a collection of toenail clippings? ArtCurious is a colorful look at the world of art history, revealing some of the strangest, funniest, and most fascinating stories behind the world's great artists and masterpieces. Through these and other incredible, weird, and wonderful tales, ArtCurious presents an engaging look at why art history is, and continues to be, a riveting and relevant world to explore.
Picasso S World
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Author : John Finlay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Picasso S World written by John Finlay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
"One of the world's most famous and intriguing twentieth-century artists, Pablo Picasso produced a vast body of work-- including paintings, drawings, lithographs, ceramics and sculptures. From small paper, string and wood sculptures of guitars to paintings such as Les Demoiselles d'Avignon he revealed himself to have been tirelessly inventive and innovative. Known as the founder of the Cubist movement, Picasso also created work in a number of other styles--realistic, Surrealistic, and classicist. He rebelled against his contemporaries and produced paintings that shocked and challenged the viewer"--P.[4] of cover.
Michelangelo
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Author : Miles J. Unger
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-07-22
Michelangelo written by Miles J. Unger and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the life of one of the most revolutionary artists in history, told through the story of six of his greatest masterpieces: “The one indispensable guide for encountering Michelangelo on his home turf” (The Dallas Morning News). Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture, a man who reinvented the practice of art itself. Throughout his long career he clashed with patrons by insisting that he had no master but his own demanding muse. Michelangelo was ambitious, egotistical, and difficult, but through the towering force of genius and through sheer pugnaciousness, he transformed the way we think about art. Miles Unger narrates the life of this tormented genius through six of his greatest masterpieces. Each work expanded the expressive range of the medium, from the Pietà carved by a brash young man of twenty-four, to the apocalyptic Last Judgment, the work of an old man weighed down by the unimaginable suffering he had witnessed. In the gargantuan David he depicts Man in the glory of his youth, while in the tombs he carved for his Medici overlords he offers perhaps history’s most sustained meditation on death and the afterlife of the soul. In the vast expanse of the Sistine Chapel ceiling he tells the epic story of Creation. During the final decades of his life, his hands too unsteady to wield the brush and chisel, he exercised his mind by raising the soaring vaults and dome of St. Peter’s in a final tribute to his God. “A deeply human tribute to one of the most accomplished and fascinating figures inthe history of Western culture” (The Boston Globe), Michelangelo brings to life the irascible, egotistical, and undeniably brilliant man whose artistry continues to amaze and inspire us after five hundred years.
The Success And Failure Of Picasso
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Author : John Berger
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-12-21
The Success And Failure Of Picasso written by John Berger and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
At the height of his powers, Pablo Picasso was the artist as revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the values of his time. At the height of his fame, he was the artist as royalty: incalculably wealthy, universally idolized−and wholly isolated. In this stunning critical assessment, John Berger−one of this century's most insightful cultural historians−trains his penetrating gaze upon this most prodigious and enigmatic painter and on the Spanish landscape and very particular culture that shpaed his life and work. Writing with a novelist's sensuous evocation of character and detail, and drawing on an erudition that embraces history, politics, and art, Berger follows Picasso from his childhood in Malaga to the Blue Period and Cubism, from the creation of Guernica to the pained etchings of his final years. He gives us the full measure of Picasso's triumphs and an unsparing reckoning of their cost−in exile, in loneliness, and in a desolation that drove him, in his last works, into an old man's furious and desperate frenzy at the beauty of what he could no longer create.
Michelangelo
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Author : Miles Unger
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-07-22
Michelangelo written by Miles Unger and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-22 with Art categories.
"The life of perhaps the most famous, most revolutionary artist in history, told through the stories of six of his magnificent masterpieces"--
Finding Dora Maar
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Author : Brigitte Benkemoun
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2020-05-19
Finding Dora Maar written by Brigitte Benkemoun and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Merging biography, memoir, and cultural history, this compelling book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar (1907–1997) through a serendipitous encounter with the artist’s address book. In search of a replacement for his lost Hermès agenda, Brigitte Benkemoun’s husband buys a vintage diary on eBay. When it arrives, she opens it and finds inside private notes dating back to 1951—twenty pages of phone numbers and addresses for Balthus, Brassaï, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Paul Éluard, Leonor Fini, Jacqueline Lamba, and other artistic luminaries of the European avant-garde. After realizing that the address book belonged to Dora Maar—Picasso’s famous “Weeping Woman” and a brilliant artist in her own right—Benkemoun embarks on a two-year voyage of discovery to learn more about this provocative, passionate, and enigmatic woman, and the role that each of these figures played in her life. Longlisted for the prestigious literary award Prix Renaudot, Finding Dora Maar is a fascinating and breathtaking portrait of the artist. “Beautifully written and fascinating.”—Paris Match “One of the happy surprises of the end of the literary season.”—Livres Hebdo “A highly moving portrait of the artist.”—Elle (France) This book received support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States through their publishing assistance program.
Picasso
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Author : Pablo Picasso
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Picasso written by Pablo Picasso and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Art categories.
Loving Picasso
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Author : Fernande Olivier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-05
Loving Picasso written by Fernande Olivier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05 with Art categories.
Fernande Olivier was the first real love in the life of Picasso, and the years she spent with the great artist, 1904 to 1912, coincide with some of his most revolutionary work. "Loving Picasso" brings Oliver's memoirs to life with archival photos, reproductions of her own artwork, and a selection of superb portraits of her by Picasso himself. 82 illustrations, 10 in full color.
The Woman Who Says No
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Author : Malte Herwig
language : en
Publisher: Greystone Books
Release Date : 2016-05-10
The Woman Who Says No written by Malte Herwig and has been published by Greystone Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Pablo Picasso called Françoise Gilot “The Woman Who Says No.” Tiny, talented, and feisty, and an accomplished artist in her own right, Gilot left Picasso after a ten-year relationship, the only woman to escape his intense attentions unscathed. From 2012 to 2014, German journalist and author Malte Herwig dropped by her ateliers in Paris and New York to chat with her about life, love, and art. She shared trenchant observations, her sharp sense of humor, and over ninety years of experience, much of it in the company of men who changed the world: Picasso, Matisse, and her second husband, the famous virologist Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine. Never one to stand in the shadows, Gilot engaged with ground-breaking artists and scientists on her own terms, creating from these vital interactions an artistic style all her own, translated into an enormous collection of paintings and drawings held by private collectors and public museums around the world. In her early nineties, she generously shared her hospitality and wisdom with Herwig, who started out as an interviewer but found himself drawn into the role of pupil as Gilot, whom he called “a philosopher of joy,” shared with him different ways of seeing the world.