{"product_id":"2026200014655-secondhand-picabia-1879-1953","title":"Picabia: 1879-1953","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Small circular hole at back of binding.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew artists embodied the anarchic spirit of 20th-century modernism as completely as Francis Picabia, whose restless genius refused to be contained by any single movement, medium, or ideology. Picabia: 1879–1953 presents a sweeping retrospective of this singular Franco-Cuban artist's extraordinary career, charting his provocative journey through Impressionism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism, and illustrating how he consistently dismantled the very conventions he had mastered. Published in conjunction with exhibitions at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh and the Galerie Neuendorf in Frankfurt, this catalogue chronicles the full arc of Picabia's creative life through essays, critical commentary, and a rich body of reproductions drawn from public and private collections worldwide.\n\nMore than a simple survey, this volume argues for Picabia's central — and often undervalued — place in the history of the avant-garde, presenting his work as a sustained act of intellectual rebellion that anticipates postmodern art by decades. His paintings, mechanical drawings, and transgressive interventions are shown to be unified not by style but by a fierce philosophical conviction, one that challenged the very definition of what art could be. Scholars, collectors, and admirers of modernism will find this an indispensable resource — and those encountering Picabia for the first time will find themselves confronting an artist whose audacity still provokes, still unsettles, and still thrills.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269340111067,"sku":"2026200014655-SECONDHAND","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/644e8f60-26a6-4cb2-b40c-a1cf7332298b.png?v=1788998599","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014655-secondhand-picabia-1879-1953","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}