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...LIFE OF PICASSO, VOL. I by John Richardson...
...Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was the most fertile artist of the 20th century, and immense quantities of ink have been spilt over his work. He was, you might say without too much exaggeration, both the last hero of Romantic culture and the first of the age of publicity: a prodigy of talent on permanent display in an age of mass media. No other artist, not even Michelangelo, had been famous in quite this way before...
Because his public career lasted most of the 20th century, Picasso has been seen through many distorting filters. The latest is the complacent feminist critique that seeks to jettison the idea of the "great artist" and to flatten his work into stereotypes of patriarchy and misogyny. But where is the book that gives us the actual...
...PICASSO, BRAQUE, GRIS, LEGER: DOUGLAS COOPER COLLECTING CUBISM, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. More than 80 representative works acquired by a friend of the artists, ranging from Picasso's Three Figures Under a Tree (1907-08) to Fernand Leger's 1936 painting Composition. Jan. 31 to April...
PAINTINGS IN THE HERMITAGE by Colin Eisler (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $85). Catherine the Great started it. She acquired important paintings, and her collection became the nucleus of the Leningrad museum. Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Picasso: no visitor has seen all that is pictured here; the book itself amounts to a work...