Picasso 1932 : love, fame, tragedy : the EY exhibition / edited by Achim Borchardt-Hume and Nancy Ireson ; with contributions by T. J. Clark, Neil Cox, Laurence Madeline, Alma Mikulinsky and Diana Widmaier Picasso.
Contributor(s): Borchardt-Hume, Achim [editor]
| Ireson, Nancy [editor] | Clark, T. J. (Timothy J.) [contributor] | Cox, Neil [contributor] | Mikulinsky, Alma [contributor] | Madeline, Laurence [contributor] | Widmaier Picasso, Diana contributor | Tate Modern (Gallery) [host institution].
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BookPublisher: London : Tate Publishing, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 267 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781849765763 (paperback) .Other title: Love, fame, tragedy | EY exhibition.Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 759.6 PIC | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
1932 was an extraordinary year for Picasso, even by his own standards. His paintings reached a new level of sensuality and he cemented his status as the most influential artist of the time. Over the course of this year he created some of his best-loved works, from colour-saturated portraits to surrealist drawings, developing ideas from the voluptuous sculptures he had made at his newly acquired country estate. In his personal life, throughout 1932, Picasso kept a delicate balance between tending to his wife Olga Khokhlova and their son Paulo, and his passionate love affair with Marie-Therese Walter, twenty-eight years his junior.
This publication will bring these complex artistic and personal dynamics to life. It was also a year of invention and reflection. Having recently turned fifty, Picasso embarked on the first volume of what remains the most ambitious catalogue of an artist's work ever made. Meanwhile, the first ever retrospective of his work was staged, a show that featured new paintings alongside earlier works in a range of different styles. Picasso's journeys between his homes in Boisgeloup and Paris capture the contradictions of his existence at this pivotal moment: a life divided between countryside retreat and urban bustle, established wife and recent lover, painting and sculpture, sensuality and darkness. The year ended traumatically when Marie-Therese fell seriously ill after swimming, losing most of her iconic blond hair.
In his final works of the year, Picasso transformed the event into scenes of rescue and rape, a dramatic finale to a year of love, fame and tragedy that pushed Picasso to the height of his creative powers. This lavishly illustrated publication will explore the major themes and concerns of 1932, in essays, artworks and archive photographs. It will strip away common myths to reveal the man and the artist in his full complexity and richness.
Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Eyal Ofer Galleries, Tate Modern, London, 8th March-9th September 2018.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-256) and index.
The painter of today / Achim Borchardt-Hume -- Rue La Boétie -- Boisegeloup -- 'I am a woman' : the spring nudes / T.J. Clark -- An art without past or future : the summer retrospective / Alma Mikulinsky -- A black canvas : experiments in black and white / Nancy Ireson -- Picasso in his element? : an autumn of surrealism / Neil Cox -- Rescue : the end of a year / Diana Widmaier Picasso -- 366 days / Laurence Madeline.
"'Even by his own extraordinary standards, 1932 was Pablo Picasso’s ‘year of wonders’. His paintings reached a new level of sensuality, while the dazzling opening of his first-ever retrospective exhibition cemented his status as the most famous artist in the world. All of this against a background of economic depression and a tidal wave of rising nationalisms. Published to accompany a landmark exhibition at Tate Modern this lavishly illustrated publication makes use of fresh research to lay bare the contradictions of the artist’s existence at this pivotal moment. Artworks, texts and archive photographs together reveal a life divided between public grandeur and the solitude of the studio, bourgeois family life and secret love affair, painting and sculpture, pleasure and darkness. Common myths are stripped away to disclose the man and the artist in his full complexity, showing the creative abundance with which he gave expression to a year of love, fame and tragedy. 'I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.' – Pablo Picasso." -- Inside cover.