A Life Of Picasso: Volume 1: 1881–1906
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Few figures in the history of Western art cast as long a shadow as Pablo Picasso, and John Richardson's monumental A Life of Picasso: Volume 1: 1881–1906 stands as the definitive account of the years that forged the legend. This first volume chronicles Picasso's remarkable journey from his birth in Málaga, Spain, through his formative years in Barcelona and his eventual conquest of Paris, tracing the restless genius who would shatter and remake the visual language of the twentieth century. With forensic precision and vivid narrative drive, Richardson reconstructs the social and cultural worlds Picasso inhabited — the cramped bohemian studios, the café society intellectuals, the rivalries and romances — illuminating how each encounter shaped the artist's rapidly evolving vision. Written with the authority of a scholar who personally knew Picasso and with the intimacy of a storyteller who understands both the man and the myth, Richardson presents a portrait of genius that is as psychologically penetrating as it is historically rigorous. Drawing on previously unpublished letters, notebooks, and eyewitness accounts, the biography dismantles received pieties and replaces them with a far more complex, contradictory, and compelling human being. Widely lauded as a masterpiece of biographical writing, this volume leaves the reader on the cusp of Picasso's most explosive creative breakthrough — the incandescent moment that would produce Les Demoiselles d'Avignon — and desperate to turn to the next chapter.
Author: John Richardson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1991, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Few figures in the history of Western art cast as long a shadow as Pablo Picasso, and John Richardson's monumental A Life of Picasso: Volume 1: 1881–1906 stands as the definitive account of the years that forged the legend. This first volume chronicles Picasso's remarkable journey from his birth in Málaga, Spain, through his formative years in Barcelona and his eventual conquest of Paris, tracing the restless genius who would shatter and remake the visual language of the twentieth century. With forensic precision and vivid narrative drive, Richardson reconstructs the social and cultural worlds Picasso inhabited — the cramped bohemian studios, the café society intellectuals, the rivalries and romances — illuminating how each encounter shaped the artist's rapidly evolving vision. Written with the authority of a scholar who personally knew Picasso and with the intimacy of a storyteller who understands both the man and the myth, Richardson presents a portrait of genius that is as psychologically penetrating as it is historically rigorous. Drawing on previously unpublished letters, notebooks, and eyewitness accounts, the biography dismantles received pieties and replaces them with a far more complex, contradictory, and compelling human being. Widely lauded as a masterpiece of biographical writing, this volume leaves the reader on the cusp of Picasso's most explosive creative breakthrough — the incandescent moment that would produce Les Demoiselles d'Avignon — and desperate to turn to the next chapter.