Picasso : challenging the past / Elizabeth Cowling ... [et al.].
Material type:
TextPublication details: London : National Gallery Co. ; [New Haven, Conn.] : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2009.Description: 176 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN: - 1857094522 (hbk.)
- 9781857094527 (hbk.)
- 9781857094510 (softback)
- 1857094514 (softback)
- Challenging the past
- 759.6 PIC
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 759.6 PIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100411835 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From his earliest years Pablo Picasso was a passionate student of the European painting tradition. He was naturally drawn to the Spanish masters Velázquez and Goya, but such figures as Rembrandt, Delacroix, Ingres, Manet, and Cézanne were also important artistic heroes. Picasso repeatedly pitted himself against these masters, taking up their signature themes, techniques, and artistic concerns in audacious paintings of his own. Sometimes his "quotations" were direct, other times highly allusive. Always Picasso made the implicit case that it was he in the 20th century who most forcefully reinvigorated the European tradition.
Liberally illustrated with 150 full-color plates of works by Picasso and those who inspired him, the book showcases the technical dexterity, independence, and vitality of Picasso's creative processes as he daringly transformed the art of the past into, as he described it, "something else entirely."
Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
National Gallery, London (2/25/09-6/7/09)
Published to accompany the exhibition at the National Gallery, London, Feb. 25-June 7, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-171) and index.
Competition and collaboration : Picasso and the old masters / Elizabeth Cowling -- Picasso, 1895-1906 : 'Each influence transitory, taking flight as soon as caught' / Anne Robbins -- Something else entirely : Picasso and Cubism, 1906-1922 / Christopher Riopelle -- Return to a kind of order / Christopher Riopelle -- The sur-reality effect in the 1930s / Neil Cox -- Picasso's 'old master' period / Susan Grace Galassi -- Looking at the past to defy the present : Picasso's paintings, 1946-1973 / Simonetta Fraquelli.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Elizabeth Cowling is Professor Emeritus of History of Art at Edinburgh University. Her publications include Picasso: Style and Meaning and Degas/Picasso (distributed by Yale). Susan Grace Galassi is senior curator at the Frick Collection, New York. She is the author of Picasso's Variations on the Masters . Christopher Riopelle is curator of post-1800 painting at the National Gallery, London. He is co-author of Renoir Landscapes: 1865-1883 (distributed by Yale), among many other books. Anne Robbins is assistant curator of post-1800 painting at the National Gallery, London, and the author of Cézanne in Britain (distributed by Yale).