Picasso and Truth

From Cubism to Guernica

T. J. Clark

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English

Princeton University Pres
06 August 2013

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Cubism; Painting & paintings

Series: Bollingen Series

Picasso and Truth offers a breathtaking and original new look at the most significant artist of the modern era. From Pablo Picasso's early The Blue Room to the later Guernica, eminent art historian T. J. Clark offers a striking reassessment of the artist's paintings from the 1920s and 1930s. Why was the space of a room so basic to Picasso's worldview? And what happened to his art when he began to feel that room-space become too confined--too little exposed to the catastrophes of the twentieth century? Clark explores the role of space and the interior, and the battle between intimacy and monstrosity, in Picasso's art. Based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of Art, this lavishly illustrated volume remedies the biographical and idolatrous tendencies of most studies on Picasso, reasserting the structure and substance of the artist's work. With compelling insight, Clark focuses on three central works--the large-scale Guitar and Mandolin on a Table (1924), The Three Dancers (1925), and The Painter and His Model (1927)--and explores Picasso's answer to Nietzsche's belief that the age-old commitment to truth was imploding in modern European culture. Masterful in its historical contextualization, Picasso and Truth rescues Picasso from the celebrity culture that trivializes his accomplishments and returns us to the tragic vision of his art--humane and appalling, naive and difficult, in mourning for a lost nineteenth century, yet utterly exposed to the hell of Europe between the wars.

By: T. J. Clark
Imprint: Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 1.276kg
ISBN: 9780691157412
ISBN 10: 0691157413
Series: Bollingen Series
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 06 August 2013
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

T. J. Clark is George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Art History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Painting of Modern Life (Princeton), The Sight of Death , and Farewell to an Idea , and the coauthor of (with Retort ) Afflicted Powers .

Reviews for Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica

[M]asterful... This satisfyingly rigorous book is grounded in Picasso's paintings and drawings throughout. Publishers Weekly At his best, he is, simply, brilliant. At his worst, he is also brilliant. -- Kevin Jackson Literary Review

Commended for Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2013
Commended for Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2013.
Short-listed for Apollo Book of the Year 2013
Short-listed for Financial Times Best Economics Books 2013
Short-listed for Shortlisted for the Apollo Awards Book of the Year 2013
Shortlisted for Apollo Book of the Year 2013.