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(CLARK) T. J. Clark ~ Picasso and Truth, From Cubism to Guernica: First Edition

Author ~ T. J. Clark

Title ~ Picasso and Truth, From Cubism to Guernica

Edition ~ First Edition 

ISBN ~ 9780691157412

Publisher ~ Princeton University Press

Published ~ 2013-05-26

Language ~ English

Pages ~ 330

Format ~ Hardcover 

Condition ~ Used, Very Good 

• Good Bits ~ Excellent condition

• Bad Bits ~ Only light shelf wear and small bumps. Internally, there are a large amount of underlinings and extensive notes written in pencil. These could be removed but I have left them as some are quite interesting. Please see pictures.

Categories ~ #Art, #Artist, #ArtHistory #Cubism, #Picasso, #Guernica, #1900s, #NonFiction, #TJClark, #ISBN9780691157412

"Picasso and Truth" offers a breathtaking and original new look at the most significant artist of the modern era. From Pablo Picasso's early "The Blue Room" to the later "Guernica", eminent art historian T. J. Clark offers a striking reassessment of the artist's paintings from the 1920s and 1930s. Why was the space of a room so basic to Picasso's worldview? And what happened to his art when he began to feel that room-space become too confined--too little exposed to the catastrophes of the twentieth century? Clark explores the role of space and the interior, and the battle between intimacy and monstrosity, in Picasso's art. Based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of Art, this lavishly illustrated volume remedies the biographical and idolatrous tendencies of most studies on Picasso, reasserting the structure and substance of the artist's work. With compelling insight, Clark focuses on three central works--the large-scale "Guitar and Mandolin on a Table" (1924), "The Three Dancers" (1925), and "The Painter and His Model" (1927)--and explores Picasso's answer to Nietzsche's belief that the age-old commitment to truth was imploding in modern European culture. Masterful in its historical contextualization, "Picasso and Truth" rescues Picasso from the celebrity culture that trivializes his accomplishments and returns us to the tragic vision of his art--humane and appalling, naive and difficult, in mourning for a lost nineteenth century…

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