ISBN:
9781478000198
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9781478000051
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 432 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
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Illustrationen
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23 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Picasso, Pablo
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Frau
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Picasso, Pablo / 1881-1973 / Demoiselles d'Avignon
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Picasso, Pablo / 1881-1973 / Criticism and interpretation
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Women in art
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Prostitution in art
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Cubism / France
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ART / General
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Picasso, Pablo / 1881-1973
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Demoiselles d'Avignon (Picasso, Pablo)
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Cubism
;
Prostitution in art
;
Women in art
;
France
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Picasso, Pablo 1881-1973
;
Frau
Abstract:
In 'Picasso's Demoiselles', eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon', one of the twentieth century's most important, celebrated, and studied paintings. Drawing on her expertise in African art and newly discovered sources, Blier reads the painting not as a simple bordello scene but as Picasso's interpretation of the diversity of representations of women from around the world that he encountered in photographs and sculptures. These representations are central to understanding the painting's creation and help identify the demoiselles as global figures, mothers, grandmothers, lovers, and sisters, as well as part of the colonial world Picasso inhabited. Simply put, Blier fundamentally transforms what we know about this revolutionary and iconic work
Description / Table of Contents:
Setting, sources, titles, and time -- The making of a painting -- Art in the flesh -- The sorcerer's apprentice -- L'oiseau du Bénin -- The global brothel -- Le bordel philosophique
