The Success And Failure Of Picasso

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307794245
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Success and Failure of Picasso written by John Berger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of his powers, Pablo Picasso was the artist as revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the values of his time. At the height of his fame, he was the artist as royalty: incalculably wealthy, universally idolized−and wholly isolated. In this stunning critical assessment, John Berger−one of this century's most insightful cultural historians−trains his penetrating gaze upon this most prodigious and enigmatic painter and on the Spanish landscape and very particular culture that shpaed his life and work. Writing with a novelist's sensuous evocation of character and detail, and drawing on an erudition that embraces history, politics, and art, Berger follows Picasso from his childhood in Malaga to the Blue Period and Cubism, from the creation of Guernica to the pained etchings of his final years. He gives us the full measure of Picasso's triumphs and an unsparing reckoning of their cost−in exile, in loneliness, and in a desolation that drove him, in his last works, into an old man's furious and desperate frenzy at the beauty of what he could no longer create.

Author : John Berger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Success and Failure of Picasso written by John Berger and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Berger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140140040
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Success and Failure of Picasso written by John Berger and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784781789
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits written by John Berger and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artists. Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both canonized and obscure, from Rembrandt to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. The result is an illuminating walk through many centuries of visual culture, from one of the contemporary world's most incisive critical voices.

Author : David Edwards
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761947516
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Therapy written by David Edwards and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-09-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Therapy provides a concise introduction to theory and practice, brought to life through case material and examples of artwork produced during therapy sessions. Written by practicing art therapist Dave Edwards, the book explains key theoretical ideas - such as symbolism, play, transference and interpretation - and shows how these relate to practice.

Author : Mary Ann Caws
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861892478
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pablo Picasso written by Mary Ann Caws and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise examination of Picasso's life and art, revisiting the themes that occupied him throughout his life and weaving these themes through his crucial close relationships. Caws embarks on a global journey to retrace the footsteps of Picasso, giving biographical context to his work from Les Demoiselles d'Avignon through Guernica and analyzing the changes and inconsistencies in his oeuvre over the course of the twentieth century. She examines Picasso's attempts to balance various viewpoints, artistic strategies, lovers, and friends, positing the central figures of the Harlequin, the clown, and the acrobat in his art as emblematic of his actions. Gertrude Stein, Max Jacob, Apollinaire, Jean Cocteau, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Paul Eluard, and Roland Penrose all make appearances in these pages as Caws examines their influence on Picasso. Caws also delves into Picasso's tumultuous relationships with his lovers Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque to understand their effects on his art. A compelling and original portrait, Pablo Picasso offers a lively exploration into the personal networks that both challenged and sustained Picasso.

Author : Elizabeth Cowling
Publisher : National Gallery London
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picasso written by Elizabeth Cowling and published by National Gallery London. This book was released on 2009 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tells the story of Picasso's artistic development and his passionate relationship with the European art tradition.

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307794180
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fortunate Man written by John Berger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when illness and the fear of death have made them unrecognizable to themselves. In the impoverished rural community in which he works, John Sassall tend the maimed, the dying, and the lonely. He is not only the dispenser of cures but the repository of memories. And as Berger and Mohr follow Sassall about his rounds, they produce a book whose careful detail broadens into a meditation on the value we assign a human life. First published thirty years ago, A Fortunate Man remains moving and deeply relevant--no other book has offered such a close and passionate investigation of the roles doctors play in their society. "In contemporary letters John Berger seems to me peerless; not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience." --Susan Sontag

Author : Steven Felix
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004291628
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pentecostal Aesthetics written by Steven Felix and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pentecostals have not sufficiently worked out a distinctively Pentecostal philosophy of art and aesthetics. In Pentecostal Aesthetics, with a foreword by Amos Yong, Steven Félix-Jäger corrects this by reflecting theologically on art and aesthetics from a global Pentecostal perspective, particularly through a pneumatic Pentecostal lens.

Author : Nikos Papastergiadis
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719038761
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernity as Exile written by Nikos Papastergiadis and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Modernity as exile tackles the themes of migration, displacement, and multiculturalism in the modern world." "Throughout John Berger's writings, whether an art, literature or sociology, the figure of the stranger signals both the pain of uprooting and the insight gained from 'another way of seeing'." "Nikos Papastergiadis uses this figure to argue that 'exile' is not merely a political or social fact, but is an inner condition, central to the postmodern self. He analyses the cultural dynamics that connect migration and exile, not simply as the negative consequence of contemporary culture, but as its fundamental driving force. Peoples are displaced not only by wars and famine but by economics, tourism, global telecommunications. How this explodes our notions of home, of community and our sense of belonging is the central question addressed by this provocative and powerful book."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved