Picasso Harlequin 1917-1937
Milano: Skira Editore, 2008. Hardcover. Navy blue dustjacket with color illustration and white lettering. Blue paper-covered boards. 319 pp. full of mostly color images. Like New. Item #171283
ISBN: 9788861309906
Text in English. Catalogue from the exhibition held October 2008 to February 2009 in Rome at the Complesso del Vittoriano. More than 180 works including oil paintings, works on paper and sculptures offer a remarkable picture of the original and eclectic creative frenzy of Pablo Picasso, in the twenty years between the two world wars: 1917-1937, which encompasses so to speak all the time production of the master Spanish, since it emphasizes the diversity protean artist. The title Harlequin art wants to be a metaphor, as pointed out by Yve-Alain Bois: "Harlequin can be anything you want, and Picasso, who was at the peak of his productivity at the same time and could adopt the style of Cubism, Neoclassicism, Surrealism and expressionism, had different affinities with this mask legendary ". The book presents in fact four different interpretations that Picasso gives to this subject: the classic Harlequin (Portrait of Leonice Massine) 1917 (Museu Picasso, Barcelona), the beautiful cubist Harlequin player of 1924 (The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC) The Harlequin abstractionist of 1927 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and the Head of Harlequin surrealist always 1927 (private collection). Contents as follows: Picasso the trickster / Yve-Alain Bois -- Interwar Picasso criticism / Charles F.B. Miller -- Picasso circa 1925: décor, the decorative, and difference / Lisa Florman -- Picasso in documents / Dawn Ades -- The painter as sculptor: Picasso in the late 1920s / Elizabeth Cowling -- Classical movements: Picasso's Metamorphoses illustrations and the Suite Vollard / Lisa Florman -- Guernica: arrest and emergency / Daniel Marcus -- Words / edited by Yve-Alain Bois, Elizabeth Cowling, Marilyn McCully -- Suite Vollard / edited by Lisa Florman.
OCLC: 713788843
Price: $29.97