Picasso: Painting the Blue Period
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Picasso: Painting the Blue Period by Pablo Picasso
New insights into Picasso’s Blue Period, through innovative technology that reveals hidden compositions, motifs and alterations, plus hitherto unknown information on the artist's materials and process Published with Art Gallery of Ontario and The Phillips Collection. This lavishly illustrated volume reexamines Pablo Picasso’s famous Blue Period (1901–04) in paintings, works on paper and sculpture. Relying on new information gleaned from technical studies performed on The Blue Room (Le Tub) (1901), Crouching Beggarwoman (La Miséreuse accroupie) (1902) and The Soup (La Soupe) (1903), this multidisciplinary volume combines art history and advanced conservation science in order to show how the young Picasso fashioned a distinct style and a pronounced artistic identity as he adapted the artistic lessons of fin-de-siècle Paris to the social and political climate of an economically struggling Barcelona. Essays, a chronology and a summary of conservation findings contextualize Picasso’s experimental approach to painting during the Blue Period. A major contribution to the burgeoning field of technical art history, Picasso: Painting the Blue Period advances new scholarship on one of the most critical episodes in 20th-century modernism.
A fine survey of what the artist was up to in the first years of the 20th century, as he shuttled back and forth between Barcelona and Paris.. We’re also given a chance to watch as this very young man gets his first sense of the artist he needs to become. -- Blake Gopnik * New York Times: Arts *
Gregor Muir is director of collection, Tate Modern. Yilmaz Dziewior is director of Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Kenneth Brummel is associate curator, Modern Art, Art Gallery of Ontario. Stephan Diederich is curator, Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Diedrich Diederichsen is a music journalist and cultural critic. Olivia Laing is a novelist and cultural critic. Fiontan Moran is assistant curator, Tate Modern. Charlie Porter is a fashion journalist. Martine Syms is an artist.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781942884927 |
| ISBN 10 | 1942884923 |
| Title | Picasso: Painting the Blue Period |
| Author | Pablo Picasso |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Distributed Art Publishers |
| Year published | 2021-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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