A Life of Picasso by John Richardson
When the Greek historian PLUTARCH (c. 46 A.D.-120 A.D.) set out to tell the tales of the famous figures from Greek and Roman history, he was more concerned with illuminating their characters than enumerating their deeds, more interested in exploring their moral failings and triumphs than in listing their conquests. The result: Plutarch's Lives. Though Plutarch is known to have taken some liberties with his Lives-his comparisons of certain Greek and Roman figures are often more fanciful than strictly accurate-his words are, in many instances, the only sources of information that have survived for some personages. And in the aggregate, his radical approach to biography exerted a profound influence on the literature to come, particularly throughout the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Shakespeare lifted some passages verbatim from the Lives, and other writers inspired by Plutarch range from James Boswell to Alexander Hamilton to Cotton Mather. Ralph Waldo Emerson called the Lives a bible for heroes. Across the five volumes, Plutarch explores the stories of such notables as: Romulus - Pericles - Coriolanus - Pyrrhus Lysander - Pompey - Alexander Caesar - Cicero - Antony and others. Cosimo is proud to present these handsome new editions, based on the classic 17th-century translations by English poet and playwright JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700), and revised and edited in the 19th century by Oxford scholar ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH (1819-1861).Marilyn McCully has curated a number of international exhibitions and has written extensively on Picasso. Three Decades of Picasso's Drawings, a 2011-12 show at the Frick Collection in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., was co-curated by her.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780394559186 |
| ISBN 10 | 0394559185 |
| Title | A Life of Picasso |
| Author | John Richardson |
| Series | Life Of Picasso 1907-1917 |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House (NY) |
| Year published | 1996-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 500 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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