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"The untold story of the exhibition that made America the center of the art world -- and Picasso the most famous artist alive -- in the shadow of World War II"-- In January 1939, Pablo Picasso was renowned in Europe but disdained by many in the United States. Ten years before, …
Collection of already publ. writings
"I saggi, ossia esperimenti, raccolti qui affrontano temi molto diversi tra loro, tutti però legati all'iconografia politica evocata nel sottotitolo. Meno evidente è lo strumento analitico che li accomuna: la nozione di Pathosformeln ('formule di pathos') propesta da Aby Warburg…
""Miller is an excellent historian ... and a fine biographer ... [His] artful arrangement of his conclusions ... makes the book something of an intellectual thriller.""--New York Times Book Review.]]>
A parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso as young men, focusing on their greatest achievements
The most important scientist of the twentieth century, and its most important artist, had their periods of greatest creativity almost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances. This fascinating parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso as young men exa…
A parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso as young men, focusing on their greatest achievements.
""Miller is an excellent historian ... and a fine biographer ... [His] artful arrangement of his conclusions ... makes the book something of an intellectual thriller.""--New York Times Book Review.]]>
"This parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso as young men focuses on their greatest achievements: Einstein's special theory of relativity and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the painting that brought art into the twentieth century. When they produced these …