A Life of Picasso (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: John Richardson
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Biography
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Love or romance, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Paris, Women, Creative process, Painting or painters, Machismo, Cubism, Spain or Spanish people, 1900’s
- Locales: Paris, France, Barcelona, Spain, Madrid, Spain, Malaga, Spain
This second volume of John Richardson’s projected four-volume biography of Pablo Picasso continues what is sure to be one of the twentieth century’s landmark studies of an artist’s life. Richardson has several advantages over earlier Picasso biographers. He benefits from generations of scholarly and biographical research on his subject, from the cooperation of Picasso’s widow and other family members, and from his firsthand knowledge of the artist’s life and work. Richardson first met Picasso in the 1950’s and became one of his friends. Thus Richardson is able to draw on...
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