Picasso on Art

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L1.50 netin UK only The Documents of 20th-Century Art General Editor: Róbert Motherwell. Documentary Editor: Bemard Karpel, Chief Librarian, Museum of Modern Art, New York. The history of art since Delacroix's time has run a complex and often confusing course. Too often we rely on the interpretations of critics and historians, rather than the statements of artists themselves, for an understanding of international styles and movements as well as individual works of art. Many twentieth-century artists have been moved to expand, explain, and even defend their art in writing, resulting in an abundance of rich and exciting literature. The Documents of 20th-Century Art' makes available the most significant and revealing writings of the artists of our time, many of which have never before been published in English. Each book contains commentaries, a bibliography and a chronology, prepared by Bemard Karpel: many of the illustrations are rare photographs. About this book Now over ninety,... Tovább

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L1.50 netin UK only The Documents of 20th-Century Art General Editor: Róbert Motherwell. Documentary Editor: Bemard Karpel, Chief Librarian, Museum of Modern Art, New York. The history of art since Delacroix's time has run a complex and often confusing course. Too often we rely on the interpretations of critics and historians, rather than the statements of artists themselves, for an understanding of international styles and movements as well as individual works of art. Many twentieth-century artists have been moved to expand, explain, and even defend their art in writing, resulting in an abundance of rich and exciting literature. The Documents of 20th-Century Art' makes available the most significant and revealing writings of the artists of our time, many of which have never before been published in English. Each book contains commentaries, a bibliography and a chronology, prepared by Bemard Karpel: many of the illustrations are rare photographs. About this book Now over ninety, Pablo Picasso is still undoubtedly the greatest artist of the twentieth century, unapproached by any of his contemporaries in the richness and diversity of his achievement, and in the extent of his influence-whether as painter, draughtsman or sculptor. And yet he remains a solitary and enigmatic figure; his opinions on art are little known and he has rarely committed them to writing. In conversation, on the other hand, art is a subject which inspires him to flights of irony, and his intimate friends report that his pithy observations defy transcription. This book presents a skilfully edited collection of statements by Picasso, culled from articles, books and interviews by friends and associates to whom he has revealed his thoughts about art and artists. Illustrated with Picasso's own book designs, this volume will inevitably be of the greatest interest to all students of art in our time. Dore Ashton, one of America's foremost art critics, is Director of the Art Department of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Sciences and Art, New York City. Vissza