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...good news about Fujitsu's new FlatScreen television is obvious: it's just over four inches thick, and it hangs on any wall as simply as a Picasso. A designer's dream, surely. But the less good news may be more important: the picture is murkier than images on most old-style television sets, and the Ivana-thin display costs, ahem, $25,000 (for the 42-in. incarnation, on sale at Hammacher Schlemmer). Nonetheless, TV analyst Allen Griffin says the set is a good omen. The breakthrough "plasma" technology that made these high-end boxes possible should push higher-quality...
...Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 (Random House). In the second volume of his biography, John Richardson applies his skills as storyteller and art historian to a prodigious decade in Picasso's life. At the beginning a still struggling Spanish artist in Paris, he was by the end truly Picasso, a co-founder of Cubism and perhaps modern art's paradigmatic figure. Richardson presents a behind-the-scenes look at an apotheosis...
...KLAUS G. PERLS and AMELIA PERLS These Manhattan art dealers and collectors gave at least $60 million worth of 20th century masterpieces by Picasso, Modigliani, Braque and Leger to New York City's Metropolitan Museum...
Cubism could not contain Picasso's restless energies for more than a handful of years, and the latter part of Richardson's second volume shows the artist moving toward a mining of classical images for his own work, trying, as always, "to cannibalize the art of the past and remake it in his own image...
Richardson knew Picasso in the last decade or so before the artist's death in 1973, and his account has a firsthand authority that subsequent biographies will lack. Those casually interested in Picasso may be advised to start their reading elsewhere; Richardson is not teaching Picasso 101 here but a postgraduate seminar that brilliantly corrects and fills in small details of a big picture that students are expected to know. It is a pleasure to see Picasso, his lovers and friends and rivals in the heady days when art mattered more than anything and greatness was only a passionate dream...