This brilliant blend of history, biography, and criticism explores the seminal figures of twentieth-century French art-Matisse, Picasso, Derain, Léger, Dufy, Braque, Giacometti, Balthus, and Hélion-and the vital art world in which they thrived. The ten interlocking essays in thi…
The author's concern is both with a general theoretical question - the relationship between painting and poetry, between the visual and the verbal - and with a specific period of artistic history - the early years of the twentieth century, when Cubism flourished. Rather than see…
El autor aborda la estructura pictórica y escultórica y, sobre todo, la arquitectura del conocimiento y de la sociedad en la obra de Picasso, es decir, las estructuras de la tradición, de las diferencias raciales, sociales y culturales, de la lógica y de la tecnología, proponien…
