Myth and Metamorphosis Picassos Classical Prints of the 1930s by 2001 Hardcover
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-MIT Press, 2000-. First edition. 235x180mm 263 pages with index. Illustrated in black and white. Cloth. Fine in like dustjacket. Previous studies of Picasso's involvement with the classical have tended to concentrate on the period immediately following the First World war, and to attribute that involvement to both the rise of political conservatism in France and the domesticating influence of the artist's marriage to Olga Koklova. Focusing instead on the later, classicizing prints of the 1930s, this book offers a radically different view of Picasso and the "classical" -a view that aligns his work much more closely with Surrealist, and specifically Bataillean, revisions of antiquity. The book's argument is built around detailed analyses of several separate print series: Picasso's illustrations for Ovid's "Metamorphoses", the etchings of the "Vollard Suite", and "The Minotauromachy". Common to all of them, the book shows, is a strong engagement not only with the classical, but with the viewer. In the latter, Picasso's prints are clearly at odds with the understanding of the relationship between classical art and its audience that prevailed throughout most of the 19th and 20th centuries - an understanding that held the work's purported autonomy to mirror the viewer's own. By exposing that autonomy as fantasy, Picasso opens the "classical" work and its viewer alike to the entanglements of desire and the dissolution of boundaries it inevitably brings. Much of the argument turns on close readings of key Surrealist texts by Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris and Roger Caillois. Even more important, however, are the prints' numerous references, heretofore unnoticed, to specific works by, among others, Rubens, Rembrandt and Goya. These references effectively create an alternative "classical" tradition out of which Picasso's etchings can be seen to have emerged. Spain is one of our specialities, many more in stock. We have 30 years experience in bookselling, mail order, shops, and internet for 10 years. You may order from us with confidence of a personal but professional service.

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Numerous b&w illustrations throughout, plus colored proof following title page. Includes notes, bibliography, plus index. Bound in original brown cloth with silver lettering to spine, in publisher's unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Very slight handling wear to dustjacket, otherwise a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 263pp. SB-85. Size: 23.5 x 18.5cm.

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Previous studies of Picasso's involvement with the classical have tended to concentrate on the period immediately following the First World War, and to attribute that involvement to both the rise of political conservatism in France and the domesticating influence of the artist's marriage to Olga Koklova. Focusing instead on the later, classicizing prints of the 1930s, this book offers a radically different view of Picasso and the "classical"—a view that aligns his work much more closely with Sur... Previous studies of Picasso's involvement with the classical have tended to concentrate on the period immediately following the First World War, and to attribute that involvement to both the rise of political conservatism in France and the domesticating influence of the artist's marriage to Olga Koklova. Focusing instead on the later, classicizing prints of the 1930s, this book offers a radically different view of Picasso and the "classical"—a view that aligns his work much more closely with Surrealist, and specifically Bataillean, revisions of antiquity. The book's argument is built around detailed analyses of several separate print series: Picasso's illustrations for Ovid's Metamorphoses, the etchings of the Vollard Suite, and The Minotauromachy. Common to all of them, the book shows, is a strong engagement not only with the classical, but with the viewer. In the latter, Picasso's prints are clearly at odds with the understanding of the relationship between classical art and its audience that prevailed throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—an understanding that held the work's purported autonomy to mirror the viewer's own. By exposing that autonomy as a fantasy, Picasso opens the "classical" work and its viewer alike to the entanglements of desire and the dissolution of boundaries it inevitably brings. Much of the argument turns on close readings of key Surrealist texts by Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, and Roger Caillois. Even more important, however, are the prints' numerous references, heretofore unnoticed, to specific works by, among others, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Goya. These references effectively create an alternative "classical" tradition out of which Picasso's etchings can be seen to have emerged.Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 21x236x184 mm;Gewicht: 730,00 gram;Verschijningsdatum: november 2000;ISBN10: 0262062135;ISBN13: 9780262062138; Engelstalig | Hardcover | 2000.

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