Picasso: architecture and vertigo

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The focus of this exploration of Picasso is not his life, but his work, revealed as a series of interventions in early 20th century Europe. Christopher Green demonstrates how these interventions confront issues that are still relevant today - race, cultural difference, modernity and sexuality.

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Full title :Picasso : architecture and vertigo / Christopher Green.

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Publication Date:©2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Yale University Press
Place of Publication:New Haven [Conn.]
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2005.

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 299 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 27 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:030010412X, 9780300104127
oclc:ocm60188232
LC Classification:N6853.P5
Dewey Decimal:709/.2

The preliminaries -- Different Picassos -- Architecture and vertigo? -- Works, contexts, meanings -- Looking for difference: the Demoiselles d'Avignon again -- The great and the small: Picasso, Henri Rousseau and 'the people' -- With and against nature: Picasso, Braque and the geography of cubist landscape -- With and against architecture: Picasso the sculptor and Lipchitz's architectural cubism -- Magicians: Picasso the sorcerer; Miró the monstrous child -- The danger of difference: Picasso and 'Africa' around 1930.