The Success and Failure of Picasso

The Success and Failure of Picasso
Author :
Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 242
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307794246
ISBN-13 : 0307794245
Rating : 4/5 (245 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Success and Failure of Picasso by : John Berger

Download or read book The Success and Failure of Picasso written by John Berger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of his powers, Pablo Picasso was the artist as revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the values of his time. At the height of his fame, he was the artist as royalty: incalculably wealthy, universally idolized−and wholly isolated. In this stunning critical assessment, John Berger−one of this century's most insightful cultural historians−trains his penetrating gaze upon this most prodigious and enigmatic painter and on the Spanish landscape and very particular culture that shpaed his life and work. Writing with a novelist's sensuous evocation of character and detail, and drawing on an erudition that embraces history, politics, and art, Berger follows Picasso from his childhood in Malaga to the Blue Period and Cubism, from the creation of Guernica to the pained etchings of his final years. He gives us the full measure of Picasso's triumphs and an unsparing reckoning of their cost−in exile, in loneliness, and in a desolation that drove him, in his last works, into an old man's furious and desperate frenzy at the beauty of what he could no longer create.


The Success and Failure of Picasso Related Books

The Success and Failure of Picasso
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: John Berger
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-21 - Publisher: Vintage

GET EBOOK

At the height of his powers, Pablo Picasso was the artist as revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the va
The Success and Failure of Picasso
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: John Berger
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: Pantheon

GET EBOOK

At the height of his powers, Pablo Picasso was the artist as revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the va
The Sense of Sight
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: John Berger
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-13 - Publisher: Vintage

GET EBOOK

With this provocative and infinitely moving collection of essays, a preeminent critic of our time responds to the profound questions posed by the visual world.
Bounce
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Matthew Syed
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-02 - Publisher: Harper Collins

GET EBOOK

“Insightful and entertaining . . . Takes us a step deeper into the world of sports, showing us how much we can learn about our own behavior.” —Dan Ariely,
Picasso and Truth
Language: en
Pages: 342
Authors: T. J. Clark
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-10-17 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

GET EBOOK

A groundbreaking reassessment of Picasso by one of today's preeminent art historians Picasso and Truth offers a breathtaking and original new look at the most s