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The Acharniansby AristophanesISBN 0140442871 (0-14-044287-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Aristophanes' Lysistrata: Translated With Introduction and Notesby AristophanesISBN 0941051021 (0-941051-02-1)
Softcover, Focus Pub R Pullins & Co
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Aristophanes' Lysistrataby Hilton J. TurnerISBN 0929524039 (0-929524-03-9)
Softcover, Bryn Mawr Commentaries
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A Day With Picassoby Billy KluverISBN 0262611473 (0-262-61147-3)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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A Day With Picasso: Twenty-Four Photographs by Jean Cocteauby Billy KluverISBN 0262112280 (0-262-11228-0)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havocby Arthur I. MillerISBN 0465018602 (0-465-01860-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc'Book summary:The most important scientist of the twentieth century, and its most important artist, had their periods of greatest creativity almost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances. This fascinating parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso as young men examines their greatest works-Einstein's special theory of relativity and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the painting that brought art into the twentieth century. Miller shows how these breakthroughs arose not only from within their respective fields but from larger currents in the intellectual culture of the times: specifically, the rise of photography for Picasso, various well-known practical problems in the design of electric dynamos and the regularization of railroad timetables for Einstein, and for both the increasingly sophisticated ideas of space, time, and invisible forces that made up the cutting-edge science of the day. Ultimately, Miller shows how Einstein and Picasso, in a deep and important sense, were both working on the same problem.[via]More editions of Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc:
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Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Iconby Gijs Van HensbergenISBN 1582346062 (1-58234-606-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon'Book summary:Guernica relates the powerful story of Picassos 1937 masterpiece, a painting that from its birth out of war and violence became known worldwide as a symbolic cry for peace. The acclaimed biographer of Gaudí traces the iconic paintings beginnings amid the Spanish Civil War through its use as a weapon in the propaganda battle against Fascism, through the years when it became the nucleus of the Museum of Modern Arts creation in New York, to its role as a symbol of reconciliation when it returned to Spain after the death of Franco, as democracy was reestablished.[via]More editions of Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon:
Guernica: The Biography Of A Twentieth-Century Iconby Pablo Picasso, Gijs Van HensbergenISBN 1582341249 (1-58234-124-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Hiroshima Joeby Martin BoothISBN 0871130726 (0-87113-072-6)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Press
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A Life of Picasso: The Prodigy, 1881-1906by John Richardson, Marilyn McCullyISBN 037571149X (0-375-71149-X)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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A Life of Picasso, 1881-1906by John RichardsonISBN 0679764216 (0-679-76421-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Life With Picassoby Carlton Lake, Francoise and Carlton Lake GilotISBN 0385261861 (0-385-26186-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Loving Picasso : The Private Journal of Fernande Olivierby Fernande Olivier, Christine D. Baker, Michael RaeburnISBN 0810942518 (0-8109-4251-8)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Lysistrataby Aristophanes, Ranjit BoltISBN 1840026456 (1-84002-645-6)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lysistrata'Book summary:Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favors with their husbands until they agree to cease fighting. The war of the sexes that ensues makes Lysistrata a comedy without peer in the history of theater. [via]
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - Lysistrata: ISBN 0810200317 (0-8102-0031-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div - Lysistrata: ISBN 0872206033 (0-87220-603-3)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc - Lysistrata: ISBN 092958757X (0-929587-57-X)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee - Lysistrata: ISBN 0146001664 (0-14-600166-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Lysistrata: ISBN 0451624955 (0-451-62495-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Lysistrata: ISBN 1840026456 (1-84002-645-6)
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The Lysistrata of Aristophanesby Aristophanes, Aubrey BeardsleyISBN 0902620665 (0-902620-66-5)
Softcover, Academy Editions Ltd
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Matisse Picassoby Henri Matisse, Kirk Varnedoe, John Elderfield, Pablo Picasso, John Golding, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Anne BaldassariISBN 0870700081 (0-87070-008-1)
Hardcover, Museum of Modern Art
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matisse Picasso'Book summary:Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso have long been seen as the twin giants of modern art, as polar opposites but also as complementary figures. Between them they are the originators of many of the most significant innovations of 20th-century painting and sculpture, but their relationship has rarely been explored in all of its closeness and complexity. In spite of their initial rivalry, the two masters eventually acknowledged one another as equals, becoming, in their old age, increasingly important to one another both artistically and personally. From the time of their initial encounters in 1906 in Gertrude and Leo Stein's Paris studio until 1917, they individually produced some of the greatest art of the 20th century and maintained an openly competitive relationship brimming with intense innovation. This period saw them create such works as Picasso's majestic "Woman with a Fan" of 1908 and Matisse's great portrait of his wife of 1913. Matisse responds to Synthetic Cubism in his "Piano Lesson" of 1916 and Picasso comes back in turn with a new, more decorative Cubism in "Three Musicians" of 1921. The 20s saw them grow apart, as Matisse moved from Paris to Nice and Picasso became involved with the Surrealists, but the 30s brought them together again, through their sheer fame and devotion to reality-based art. Their story continues until Matisse's death in 1954, when Picasso paid his friend and colleague tribute in his series Women of Algiers, of which he said, "When Matisse died, he left his odalisques to me as a legacy." Matisse Picasso presents the artists' oeuvres in groupings that reveal the affinities but also the extreme contrasts of their artistic visions. Published to accompany the landmark exhibition, a joint effort of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Raunion des musaes nationaux/Musae Picasso and the Musae national d'art moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Matisse Picasso is the first major examination of the fascinating relationships between their art, their careers, and their lives. Thirty-four essays, each by a member of the exhibition's curatorial team, focus on a particular moment in the artists' evolving relationship. The authors present in-depth analyses of specific aspects of the unique artistic dialogue between Matisse and Picasso as reflected in selected juxtapositions of each artist's works. These texts are accompanied by an introductory history, commentary on the public perception of important artistic relationships, and an extensive chronology. [via]
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Pablo Picassoby Ernest RaboffISBN 0064460673 (0-06-446067-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Pablo Picassoby Not AvailableISBN 3822831611 (3-8228-3161-1)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Pablo Picasso: 1881-1973by Carsten-Peter Warncke, Ingo F. WaltherISBN 3822838144 (3-8228-3814-4)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pablo Picasso: 1881-1973'Book summary:Pablo Picasso once said, "If there's something to be stolen, I steal it." Few artists have helped themselves as liberally from the treasures of bygone art. His own legacy is scarcely paralleled in its scope and diversity. Our study of Picasso, the most exhaustive record of his work to date, contains almost 1500 illustrations - from his earliest drawings to the master's very last painting. [via]
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Hardcover, Taschen America Llc - Pablo Picasso: 1881-1973: ISBN 3822888435 (3-8228-8843-5)
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Pablo Picasso: 1881-1973by Pablo Picasso, Ingo F. Walther, Carsten-Peter Warncke, Michael HulseISBN 3822872210 (3-8228-7221-0)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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Pablo Picasso 1881-1973by Roland Penrose, John GoldbergISBN 0517668467 (0-517-66846-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Pablo Picasso 1881-1973: Genius of the Centuryby Ingo F. WaltherISBN 3822859702 (3-8228-5970-2)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pablo Picasso 1881-1973: Genius of the Century'Book summary:One name in the history of the 20th century art stands out over all others: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). As painter, graphic artist and sculptor, he displayed an inventive enterprise and innovative bravado that always kept him one step ahead of his contemporaries. As one of them, the painter Max Ernst, ruefully put it: "No one can touch Picasso. He is genius incarnate." The works selected here cover Picasso's entire output, from the less familiar to key masterpieces such as "Guernica", from the Blue and Rose Periods early in his career through his cubist and classicist phases and the formal experiments of the Thirties to his later involvement with politics in art. [via]
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Pablo Picasso 1881-1973: Genius of the Centuryby Pablo Picasso, Ingo F. WaltherISBN 3822896357 (3-8228-9635-7)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Pablo Picasso: A Retrospectiveby William RubinISBN 0316707031 (0-316-70703-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Pablo Picasso: Breaking All the Rulesby True Kelley, Pablo PicassoISBN 0448428628 (0-448-42862-8)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pablo Picasso: Breaking All the Rules'Book summary:Simon Packard didn't always want to do his artist report on Pablo Picasso, but after his twin brother Stephen does a report on Monet-Simon's favorite artist-Simon chooses Picasso by default! Throughout, there are reproductions of Pablo Picasso's masterpieces as well as Simon's own drawings, and wonderful nuggets of info that will appeal to kids.[via]More editions of Pablo Picasso: Breaking All the Rules:
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Pablo Picasso: The Lithographsby Pablo PicassoISBN 3775709819 (3-7757-0981-9)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973by Ingo F. WaltherISBN 1571451307 (1-57145-130-7)
Softcover, Advantage Pub Group
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Pablo Picasso, a Retrospectiveby Pablo Picasso, Jane Fluegel, William Stanley Rubin, Reunion Des Musees Nationaux (France), Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)ISBN 0870705199 (0-87070-519-9)
Softcover, Museum of Modern Art
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The Painter of Modern Lifeby John Richardson, Marilyn McCullyISBN 0394559185 (0-394-55918-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Picassoby Arianna Stassinopoulos HuffingtonISBN 0380707551 (0-380-70755-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso'Book summary:Packed with juicy gossip and lurid sexual details, this is the explosive bestselling biography of one of the greatest artistic geniuses of our time. This controversial expose reveals in shocking detail the torments and passions of a man in love with life and art. Picasso has already spent 10 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and is a BOMC featured selection. Includes 32 rare personal photos. HC: Simon & Schuster. (Nonfiction) [via]
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Picassoby Carsten-Peter Warncke, Pablo PicassoISBN 3822823775 (3-8228-2377-5)
Softcover, Taschen America, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso'Book summary:Pablo Picasso once said, "If there's something to be stolen, I steal it." Few artists have helped themselves as liberally from the treasures of bygone art. His own legacy is scarcely paralleled in its scope and diversity. Our study of Picasso, the most exhaustive record of his work to date, contains almost 1500 illustrations - from his earliest drawings to the master's very last painting. [via]
Picassoby Mike VeneziaISBN 0516422715 (0-516-42271-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso'Book summary:This series meets National Curriculum Standards for: Social Studies: Culture [via]
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Picassoby Gertrude SteinISBN 0486247155 (0-486-24715-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso'Book summary:Intimate, revealing memoir of Picasso as man and artist by influential literary figure. Highly readable amalgam of biographical fact, artistic and aesthetic comments: Picasso as founder of Cubism, associate of Apollinaire, Braque, Derain, other notables; titanic, creative spirit. One of Stein's most accessible works. 61 black-and-white illustrations. Index.[via]More editions of Picasso:
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Picassoby Roland Penrose, Pablo Picasso, David LomasISBN 0714827088 (0-7148-2708-8)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso'Book summary:Pablo Picasso is indisputably one of the great artists of the 20th century. This handsome volume is a fine introduction to a legendary figure and includes more than 60 plates of his masterpieces as well as some lesser-known works. Find out where Picasso got his inspiration and what role he played in the artistic revolution known as cubism. You'll enjoy following the evolution of Picasso's art and will marvel at his highly personal, expressionistic style. [via]
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Picassoby Timothy HiltonISBN 0500201447 (0-500-20144-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Picasso and Ceramicsby Paul Bourassa, Sylvie MillietISBN 285025911X (2-85025-911-X)
Hardcover, Hazan Editeur
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Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformationby Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Grand Palais (Paris, France), William Rubin, Anne BaldassariISBN 0870701428 (0-87070-142-8)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation'Book summary:The first 100 years of modern art witnessed the popularization of photography, the decline of traditional patronage, and an increasing emphasis on abstraction in painting, all of which threatened the survival of portraiture as a genre. It continued to flourish because modern painters - Picasso foremost amongst them - sought and found meaningful new ways to portray the human face. This book focuses on this part of the artist's oevre, reproducing works in oil, gouache, pastel, charcoal and other media to illustrate the solutions Picasso invented to solve the "problem" of the modernist portrait. Published to accompany an exhibition to be shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1996, the book contains eight essays examining different periods and aspects of Picasso's career. The personal relationships between Picasso and his subjects are clarified. Contributions come from Anne Baldassari, Pierre Daix, Michael Fitzgerald, Brigitte Leal, Marilyn McCully, Robert Rosenblum, William Rubin, Helene Seckel and Kirk Varnedoe. [via]
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Picasso and the Girl With a Ponytailby Laurence AnholtISBN 0764150316 (0-7641-5031-6)
Hardcover, Barrons Juveniles
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Picasso: Creator and Destroyerby Arianna Huffington StassinopoulosISBN 0671454463 (0-671-45446-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Picasso Erotiqueby Pablo Picasso, Annie Le Brun, Pascal Quignard, Patrick Roegiers, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Malen GualISBN 3791325612 (3-7913-2561-2)
Hardcover, Prestel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso Erotique'Book summary:The career of the greatest painter of the 20th century was played out in the shadow of Eros - and of Thanatos. At the age of eight Picasso's drawings already displayed a precocious interest in the female form, and in the days leading up to his death he was still working obsessively on sketches of the female sex. At the turn of the century the young Picasso created drawings and watercolours inspired by the bordellos of Barcelona which he frequented. These works mix desire, fascination, but also comedy and the grotesque alongside the ever-present fear of disease. They would result, seven years later, in his masterpiece, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon". The works in this book include erotic drawings formal and informal, sketches in notebooks hidden in drawers and private collections, and occasionally paintings and sculptures. Through all these works the essays by an interational team of scholars analyze the primeval notion of desire in Picasso's work, as well as his relation to voyeurism and exhibitionism, to artist and model. Whether through playful or hallucinatory forms, Picasso's representation of the desiring and desired body has become a pivotal moment in the history of 20th-century art. Produced to accompany a major exhibition in Paris, Montreal and Barcelona, "Picasso Erotique" is a unique examination of the central theme of Picasso's work. [via]
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Picasso: His Life and Work.by Roland PenroseISBN 0520042077 (0-520-04207-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Picasso : Life and Workby Pablo PicassoISBN 3829029780 (3-8290-2978-0)
Softcover, Konemann
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Picasso Line Drawings and Prints: 44 Worksby Pablo PicassoISBN 0486241963 (0-486-24196-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Picasso Paints a Portraitby David Douglas DuncanISBN 0810937395 (0-8109-3739-5)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Picasso: The Complete Writingsby Gertrude SteinISBN 0807066575 (0-8070-6657-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Picasso's Guernica: The Labyrinth of Narrative and Visionby Frank D. RussellISBN 0839002432 (0-8390-0243-2)
Hardcover, Allanheld & Schram
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Picasso's Paris: Walking Tours of the Artist's Life in the Cityby Ellen WilliamsISBN 0964126273 (0-9641262-7-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica and the Masterpiece That Changed the Worldby Russell Martin, Pablo PicassoISBN 0452284155 (0-452-28415-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica and the Masterpiece That Changed the World'Book summary:From the bestselling author of Beethoven's Hair comes a stirring narrative account of the bombing of the town that inspired one of the world's most celebrated and controversial works of art, the painting Guernica's profound impact on the politics and culture of the twentieth century, and the artist whose immense passion and artistic vision are unequaled in modern history.
On April 26, 1937, in the late afternoon of a busy market day in the Basque town of Gernika in northern Spain, the German Luftwaffe began the relentless bombing and machine-gunning of businesses, homes and villagers to test a new type of warfare waged from the air at the request of General Francisco Franco and his rebel forces. Three-and-a-half hours later, the village lay in ruins, its population decimated. This act of terror and unspeakable cruelty the first intentional, large-scale attack against a nonmilitary target in modern warfare outraged the world, and compelled a Spanish painter to respond with artistic fury. Pablo Picasso, an expatriate living in Paris, reacted immediately to the devastation in his homeland by beginning work on the canvas that would become his testament against the horrors of war.
Guernica has become widely considered the greatest artwork of the twentieth century in the sixty-five years since its creation, and has been claimed as a powerful symbolic image first by the embattled government of Republican Spain and then, over time, by the international communist party, American artists opposing the war in Vietnam, international peace organizations, Basque separatists, survivors of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and people everywhere.
Weaving themes of conflict and redemption, doom and transcendence, and featuring some of the century's most memorable and infamous figures, including Adolf Hitler, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Orwell, Jackson Pollock, Lillian Hellman, and Picasso himself, Martin follows this renowned masterwork from its fevered creation through its journey across decades, from many countries of Europe to America and finally and triumphantly to Spain. Picasso's War is a book that vividly demonstrates how vital art is to human lives and how sometimes it even transfigures tragedy, a story that delivers an unforgettable portrait of an artistic genius whose visionary rendering of the terrible wounds of war still resonates profoundly today. [via]
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Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maarby Mary Ann CawsISBN 0821226932 (0-8212-2693-2)
Hardcover, Bulfinch Pr
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Picasso, My Grandfatherby Marina PicassoISBN 1573229539 (1-57322-953-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso, My Grandfather'Book summary:Pablo Picasso showed a lifelong fascination for monsters, populating countless paintings and drawings with their hideous forms. To judge by his granddaughter Marina's anguished memoir, he might have found their model in the mirror.
In this highly impressionistic account, Marina Picasso writes of life with a man who set impassable boundaries "between the inaccessible demigod and us." And with a vengeance: Picasso terrorized his son, Marina's father, who took refuge in downward-spiraling alcoholism, his ambition crushed. "To make a dove," Picasso once wrote, "you must first wring its neck." The grandchildren fared little better; they provided Picasso only with a little local color, just as women provided him with sexual prey, and in the end everyone in her grandfather's life, Marina writes, wound up as a victim, "sacrificed to his art."
Many books have portrayed Pablo Picasso unfavorably, but this is the closest we have to a fly-on-the-wall account of the artist in his cruel prime. The picture isn't pretty, but it is captivating. --Gregory McNamee [via]
Portrait of Picassoby PenroseISBN 0870990535 (0-87099-053-5)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Softcover - Portrait of Picasso: ISBN 0853313172 (0-85331-317-2)
Hardcover, Lund Humphries - Portrait of Picasso: ISBN 0870705369 (0-87070-536-9)
Hardcover - Portrait of Picasso: ISBN 0870990535 (0-87099-053-5)
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Portrait of Picasso As a Young Man: An Interpretive Biographyby Norman MailerISBN 0446672661 (0-446-67266-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooperby John RichardsonISBN 0226712451 (0-226-71245-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper'Book summary:Two quotations from Francis Bacon bookend this curious, exasperatedly affectionate memoir by John Richardson, distinguished art historian and 1991 Whitbread Award-winning biographer of Picasso: the prophetic "she'll try to lure you to bed, and then she'll turn on you. She always does," finds its uncanny conclusion in "Didn't I warn you she was a thoroughly treacherous woman?" The sorcerer (art collector Douglas Cooper) and his apprentice (Richardson) lived for 10 years in the grandiose "folly" Château de Castille in Provence, where they entertained a circle that included Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Angus Wilson, Tennessee Williams, and a range of other usual suspects from that period's artistic fraternity. When Richardson left Cooper for the lights of New York, Cooper, in the great tradition of spurned lovers, burned Richardson's remaining possessions, stole his paintings, denounced him to friends and employers, and even attempted to arrange his arrest by Interpol. Cooper was a duplicitous, sadistic bully (among his more outrageous acts was loudly booing the queen outside Westminster Abbey at her coronation). But his deep knowledge of art history and classical cubism and his pioneering collecting of the works of Picasso, Braque, Léger, and Gris were an essential counterpoint to the staid policy of the Tate Gallery and its director, Sir John Rothenstein, for whom he held a deteriorating scorn. Richardson's delight in reviewing this formative period reignites the fire in Cooper flaring nostrils and borrows some of its flame to stoke what is arguably an enriching addendum to his Picasso magnum opus, which, appropriately, bears a dedication to his old sorcerer. --David Vincent, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature.by Carl Gustav JungISBN 0691017751 (0-691-01775-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature.'Book summary:Nine essays, written between 1922 and 1941, on Paracelsus, Freud, Picasso, the sinologist Richard Wilhelm, Joyce's Ulysses, artistic creativity generally, and the source of artistic creativity in archetypal structures.
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The Success and Failure of Picassoby John BergerISBN 0679737251 (0-679-73725-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Success and Failure of Picasso'Book summary: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 idolizedand wholly isolated.
In this stunning critical assessment, John Bergerone of this century's most insightful cultural historianstrains 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 costin 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. [via]More editions of The Success and Failure of Picasso:
When Pigasso Met Mootisseby Nina LadenISBN 0811811212 (0-8118-1121-2)
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The William S. Paley Collectionby William RubinISBN 0870701932 (0-87070-193-2)
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World of Picassoby Lael WertenbakerISBN 0809402424 (0-8094-0242-4)
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A Year of Picasso Paintings:1969: 1969by Rafael Alberti, Pablo PicassoISBN 0810903822 (0-8109-0382-2)
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Grand-Pereby Marina PicassoISBN 2207251926 (2-207-25192-6)
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