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Based on an exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona which was presented as The Unknown Picasso, this book consists of his early landscapes, accompanied by essays by many scholars, covering topics which range from Picasso's childhood in Malaga to his fame as an artist.

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A lavishly illustrated catalog for a show at the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, organized under director Ocaña, this book provides studies of the formative years of Picasso through his use of landscape. In a series of independent essays by a variety of authorities on the artist, landscape is used to discuss Picasso's various transformations, from his beginnings under his father's tutelege, to abandonment of official art, to the influences of the Saffron Group, Munch, the Nabis, African sculpture, Impressionism, and Cézanne. Picasso's work, his Cubist collaboration with Braque, the intense colors of his palette, flatness and rhythm‘all are narrowly analyzed in the fully footnoted essays, which sometimes overlap. The book also discusses how Picasso loved the life and scenery of rural Spain, what painting landscape meant to him, and how his later work assimilated this early period. Each essay is followed by a portfolio of color reproductions, and a chronology and bibliography are included at the back of the book. Overall, this unique title will be sought by students of Picasso and 20th-century art. Recomended for special collections.‘Ellen Bates, New York (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.