Picasso and the War Years: 1937-1945
Thames and Hudson / Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1999. Softcover. White wraps. 256 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. VG. Item #14118
ISBN: 9780884010951
Issued in conjunction with several 1998-1999 exhbiitions of this work by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). With introductory essay by Steven A. Nash (Picasso, War, and Art), essays by Lydia Csató Gasman (Death Falling from the Sky: Picasso's Wartime Texts), Gertje R. Utley (From Guernica to The Charnel House: The Political Radicalization of the Artist), Brigitte Baer (Where Do They Come From--Those Superb Paintings and Horrid Women of 'Picasso's War?'), Michèle C. Cone (Circumventing Picasso: Jean Paulhan and His Artists), and Michael Fitzgerald (Reports from the Home Fronts: Some Skirmishes over Picasso's Reputation), catalogue of 83 works, annotated and illustrated, and a chronology of Picasso's life and the progress of the war.
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