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Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973: Genius of the century
Pablo Picasso 18811973 Genius of the century Author:Ingo F. Walther One name in the history of 20th century art stands out over all at others: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973). As painter, graphic artist and sculptor, he displayed an inventive enterprise and innovative bravado that always kept him one step ahead of his contemporaries. As one of them, the painter Max Ernst, ruefully put it: "no one can touch Picasso's... more » entire output, from the less familiar to key masterpieces such as Guenica- from the Blue and Rose Periods early in his career, through his cubist and classicist phases, his formal experiments of the Thirties, and on to his later involvement with politics in art.
Contents: Childhood and youth 1881-1901 -- Blue and rose periods 1901-1906 -- Picasso's drawings and graphic art -- Cubism 1907-1917 -- Picasso's sculptures -- Twenties and thirties 1918-1936 -- Picasso's poster -- Picasso's wartime experience 1937-1945 -- Picasso's ceramics -- Late works 1946-1973 -- Pablo Picasso 1881-1973: his life and work.« less