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...Cubist Picasso (Rizzoli) In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Picasso scholars have compiled a commentary on his legacy and the influence of Cubism in the 20th century...
Sculptor Ruben Ochoa, based in Los Angeles, operates in the great modernist tradition of junk assemblage that goes back to Picasso. Ochoa builds his work out of suitably despised things: broken concrete, rebar, chain-link fencing--the rubbishy stuff of construction sites. But he combines those elements to create ceiling-height formations that have a brutal grandeur. An Ideal Disjuncture, 2008, brings to mind the swells of Baroque form, but with materials so scrappy, they couldn't fall into the suave clichés of Baroque art if they tried...
...Nazis amassed so much loot that they had to set up other clearing houses to process the flood of paintings and objects, many of which belonged to Jewish families killed in the Holocaust. Some of the art changed hands many times; Nazis collected and traded "degenerate" art - Picasso and the Impressionists - for earlier works they deemed more "Aryan...
...serious engagement,’ because, quite falsely, it was claimed that whatever was being created was derivative of modern art in the West,” Blier says. As opposed to the West influencing African art, Blier emphasizes, African art has had an influence on the West. Pablo Picasso, whose cubist work in particular illustrates the artist’s African inspirations, is just one prominent example.This historical disinterest is manifested in the lack of African art on Harvard’s own campus. It currently enjoys only a scattered presence, featured on a small scale in buildings such...
...seeing new ways for art to be art, while at the same time insulting that audience with attention-grabbing laziness and insouciance. They socialized and threw parties, and helped the rich collectors who were intrigued by them to choose the right works by the right established figures - Matisse, Picasso, Brancusi and so on - to improve their collections. But they pretended they couldn't be bothered to compete with such masters...