Picasso S War

Author : Russell Martin
Publisher : Hol Art Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781936102259

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Picasso's War by Russell Martin Pdf

The destruction of a town, and the creation of a masterpiece--On April 26, 1937, in the late afternoon of a busy market day in the Basque town of Gernika in northern Spain, the German Luftwaffe began the relentless bombing and machine-gunning of buildings and villagers at the request of General Francisco Franco and his rebel forces. Three-and-a-half hours later, the village lay in ruins, its population decimated. This act of terror and unspeakable cruelty--the first intentional, large-scale attack against a nonmilitary target in modern warfare--outraged the world and one man in particular, Pablo Picasso. The renowned artist, an expatriate living in Paris, reacted immediately to the devastation in his homeland by creating the canvas that would become widely considered one of the greatest artworks of the twentieth century--Guernica. Weaving themes of conflict and redemption, of the horrors of war and of the power of art to transfigure tragedy, Russell Martin follows this monumental work from its fevered creation through its journey across decades and continents--from Europe to America and, finally and triumphantly, to democratic Spain. Full of historical sweep and deeply moving drama, Picasso's War delivers an unforgettable portrait of a painting, the dramatic events that led to its creation, and its ongoing power today.

Author : Hugh Eakin
Publisher : Crown
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780451498496

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Picasso's War by Hugh Eakin Pdf

A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II “[Eakin] has mastered this material. . . . The book soars.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vanity Fair, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker In January 1939, Pablo Picasso was renowned in Europe but disdained by many in the United States. One year later, Americans across the country were clamoring to see his art. How did the controversial leader of the Paris avant-garde break through to the heart of American culture? The answer begins a generation earlier, when a renegade Irish American lawyer named John Quinn set out to build the greatest collection of Picassos in existence. His dream of a museum to house them died with him, until it was rediscovered by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., a cultural visionary who, at the age of twenty-seven, became the director of New York’s new Museum of Modern Art. Barr and Quinn’s shared goal would be thwarted in the years to come—by popular hostility, by the Depression, by Parisian intrigues, and by Picasso himself. It would take Hitler’s campaign against Jews and modern art, and Barr’s fraught alliance with Paul Rosenberg, Picasso’s persecuted dealer, to get Picasso’s most important paintings out of Europe. Mounted in the shadow of war, the groundbreaking exhibition Picasso: Forty Years of His Art would launch Picasso in America, define MoMA as we know it, and shift the focus of the art world from Paris to New York. Picasso’s War is the never-before-told story about how a single exhibition, a decade in the making, irrevocably changed American taste, and in doing so saved dozens of the twentieth century’s most enduring artworks from the Nazis. Through a deft combination of new scholarship and vivid storytelling, Hugh Eakin shows how two men and their obsession with Picasso changed the art world forever.

Author : Lydia Gasman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780595399000

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War and the Cosmos in Picasso's Texts, 1936-1940 by Lydia Gasman Pdf

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Author : Steven A. Nash
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1577173317

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Picasso and the War Years, 1937-1945 by Steven A. Nash Pdf

This absorbing book draws upon new research and works that, in some cases were held out of public view in Picasso's own collection, to explore the critically important--but still under-studied--period of his life from the Spanish Civil War through World War II and the Nazi occupation of France. This span of years is marked by some of the most intensely personal and expressive work of his career. The subjects he painted changed dramatically in direct response first to the horrors of war and then the dangers and privations of life in occupied Paris, where, though branded a degenerate artist by the Nazis, he chose to remain until the Liberation.

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786474653

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Chaplin's War Trilogy by Wes D. Gehring Pdf

The book examines Charlie Chaplin's evolving perspective on dark comedy in his three war films, Shoulder Arms (1918), The Great Dictator (1940), and Monsieur Verdoux (1947). In the first he uses the genre in a groundbreaking manner but yet for a pro-war cause. In Dictator dark comedy is applied in an antiwar way. In Monsieur Verdoux Chaplin embraces the genre as an individual in defense against a society out to destroy him. All three are pivotal films in the development of the genre in film, with the latter two movies being very controversial for their time.

Author : Alice Doumanian Tankard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015017080592

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Picasso's Guernica After Rubens's Horrors of War by Alice Doumanian Tankard Pdf

Author : Philip Ziegler
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681442471

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Between the Wars by Philip Ziegler Pdf

At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you call it?" he was asked. "The First World War" was his bleak response. In Between the Wars Philip Ziegler examines the major international turning points - cultural and social as well as political and military - that led the world from one war to another. His perspective is panoramic, touching on all parts of the world where history was being made, giving equal weight to Gandhi's March to the Sea and the Japanese invasion of China as to Hitler's rise to power. It is the tragic story of a world determined that the horrors of the First World War would never be repeated yet committed to a path which in hindsight was inevitably destined to end in a second, even more devastating conflict.

Author : John Richardson
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525656753

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A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years by John Richardson Pdf

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.

Author : Jonathan P. Harris,Richard Koeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 1846318750

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Picasso and the Politics of Visual Representation by Jonathan P. Harris,Richard Koeck Pdf

Focuses on the lesser known 'political Picasso' of the period after 1944 when he produced a body of work connected directly to his left-wing political beliefs and continued affiliation to a Republican Spain destroyed by the Spanish Civil War.

Author : Gijs van Hensbergen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781408841488

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Guernica by Gijs van Hensbergen Pdf

Of all the great paintings in the world, Picasso's Guernica has had a more direct impact on our consciousness than perhaps any other. In this absorbing and revealing book, Gijs van Hensbergen tells the story of this masterpiece. Starting with its origin in the destruction of the Basque town of Gernika in the Spanish Civil War, the painting is then used as a weapon in the propaganda battle against Fascism. Later it becomes the nucleus of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the detonator for the Big Bang of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s. This tale of passion and politics shows the transformation of this work of art into an icon of many meanings, up to its long contested but eventually triumphant return to Spain in 1981.

Author : Russell Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Guernica (Spain)
ISBN : 0743478630

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Picasso's War by Russell Martin Pdf

On 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain was bombed by Hitler's Luftwaffe on behalf of Francisco Franco as he waged a bloody civil war. Twenty-four hours later, the village lay in ruins, its population decimated. This act of terror - the first large-scale attack against civilians in modern warfare - outraged the world, and one man in particular. Pablo Picasso, an expatriate living in Paris, responded to the devastation in his homeland by beginning work on GUERNICA, a painting many consider the greatest artwork of the twentieth century. Intermingling themes of politics, art, war and morality, and featuring some of the twentieth century's most memorable and infamous figures, Russell Martin follows this renowned masterpiece across decades and continents. From Europe to America and, finally, back to Spain, PICASSO'S WAR sheds light on the conflict that was an ominous prelude to World War II and delivers an unforgettable portrait of a genius whose visionary statement about the horror and terrible wounds of war still resonates today.

Author : Simonetta Fraquelli,Kenneth E. Silver,Elizabeth Cowling,Dominique H. Vasseur
Publisher : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 1785510347

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Picasso by Simonetta Fraquelli,Kenneth E. Silver,Elizabeth Cowling,Dominique H. Vasseur Pdf

'Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation, and Change' examines the work that Pablo Picasso made in Paris during the tumultuous years of World War I. Focusing on Picasso's oeuvre from 1912 to 1924, when he utilised both Cubist and classical modes in his art, this fully illustrated catalogue highlights one of the most important periods in the history of modern art. Picasso's shifts in style became a means of not repeating, in his words, 'the same vision, the same technique, the same formula.' With that approach in mind, the book also includes the work of Picasso's peers and friends, artists who were also exploring themes relevant to the difficult times in which they lived. Published to accompany a major exhibition of the same name at the Barnes Foundation and the Columbus Museum of Art, this elegantly designed book is essential reading for all those interested in Picasso's work and the dramatic and innovative period of art history during the Great War. CONTRIBUTORS: Simonetta Fraquelli is an independent art historian and specialist in twentieth-century European art. She has curated numerous exhibitions, including Modigliani and his Models (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2006), Chagall: Modern Master (Tate Liverpool, 2013), and Joan Miro: Wall, Frieze, Mural (Kunsthaus Zurich, 2015). Elizabeth Cowling is Professor Emeritus of History of Art and Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh University. Kenneth Silver is Professor of Art History and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Institute of French Studies at New York University. Dominique H. Vasseur is the former Chief Curator and Curator of European Art at the Columbus Museum of Art, a position he held until his retirement in 2015. Ann Bremner is an arts writer and editor based in Columbus, Ohio. She earned BA and MA degrees in history of art from The Ohio State University. SELLING POINTS: * Examines Pablo Picasso's use of both Cubist and classical styles in his art during the tumultuous years of World War I * Accompanies a major exhibition opening at the Barnes Foundation (February 21 to May 9, * Features new scholarship from leading experts from around the world * Includes images and discussion of costumes by Picasso for the ballet Parade (1917), and photographs by Jean Cocteau showing the artist and friends in Paris (1916) 126 colour

Author : Elisabeth Bronfen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781838608309

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Crossmappings by Elisabeth Bronfen Pdf

The great, influential cultural critic, Elisabeth Bronfen, sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema and visual culture. The crossmappings facilitated in and between these essays address the cultural survival of image formulas involving portraiture and the uncanny relation between the body and its visual representability, the gendering of war, death and the fragility of life, as well as sovereignty and political power. Each chapter tracks transformations that occur as aesthetic figurations travel from one historical moment to another, but also from one medium to another. Many prominent artists are discussed during these journeys into the cultural imaginary, include Degas, Francesca Woodman, Cindy Sherman, Paul McCarthy, Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, Wagner, Picasso, and Shakespeare, as well as classic Hollywood's film noir and melodrama and the TV series, The Wire and House of Cards.

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Summary of Hugh Eakin's Picasso's War by Milkyway Media Pdf

Get the Summary of Hugh Eakin's Picasso's War in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In "Picasso's War," Hugh Eakin chronicles the struggle to introduce and establish modern art in the United States, focusing on key figures like John Quinn, Alfred Stieglitz, and Alfred Barr. The narrative begins with the early 20th-century resistance to avant-garde art in America, as seen in the commercial failure of Picasso's first U.S. exhibition. Despite the cultural conservatism and censorship prevalent in New York, patrons like Quinn championed modern art, paralleling scientific breakthroughs of the era...

Author : Miles J. Unger
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476794228

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Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World by Miles J. Unger Pdf

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.