Paco y Coco by Katrina Streza

Paco y Coco by Katrina Streza

Truman and Picasso were contemporaries and were both shaped by and shapers of the great events of the twentieth century--the man who painted>Guernica>and the man who authorized the use of atomic bombs against civilians.
But in most ways, they couldn't have been more different. Picasso was a communist, and probably the only thing Harry Truman hated more than communists was modern art. Picasso was an indifferent father, a womanizer, and a millionaire. Truman was utterly devoted to his family and, despite his fame, far from a rich man. How did they come to be shaking hands in front of Picasso's studio in the south of France?
Truman's meeting with Picasso was quietly arranged by Alfred H. Barr Jr., the founding director of New York's Museum of Modern Art and an early champion of Picasso. Barr knew that if he could convince these two ideological antipodes, the straight-talking politician from Missouri and the Cubist painter from M laga, to simply shake hands, it would send a powerful message, not just to reactionary Republicans pushing McCarthyism at home, but to the whole world: modern art was not evil.
Truman author Matthew Algeo retraced the Trumans' Mediterranean vacation and visited the places they went with Picasso, including Picasso's villa, Picasso's ceramics studio in Vallauris, and Ch teau Grimaldi, a museum in Antibes.
A rigorous history with a heartwarming center, When Harry Met Pablo>intertwines the biographies of Truman and Picasso, the history of modern art, and twentieth-century American politics, but at its core it is the touching story of two old men who meet for the first time and realize they have more in common--and are more alike--than they ever imagined.

Streza, Katrina: - Katrina Streza lives on a small ranch in Southern California with her family, twelve chickens, two cats, two dogs, one horse and one very noisy dove.While receiving her Master's Degree in Education at Pepperdine University, Katrina decided that her goal was to make class so fun her students wouldn't realize they were learning. She's applied that philosophy while teaching and tutoring kids from kindergarten to college.When she's not writing or teaching, Katrina sings in the choir at her church.

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ISBN 13	9781532431159
ISBN 10	1532431155
Title	Paco y Coco
Author	Katrina Streza
Series	Little Lectores
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Xist Publishing
Year published	2023-09-06
Number of pages	20
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