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The triumphant years of Picasso
By M&C News Nov 7, 2007, 12:55 GMT
In this new book called A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson, the NYT has said the book is different from other Picasso books (where he is most often portrayed as a cruel and misogynistic megalomaniac) but that Richardson works on “showing us how the artist encoded his day-to-day relationships with women in his work; how his homes, his surroundings and his cannibalistic study of other painters’ work informed individual canvases and sketches.”
Picasso not only compared himself to God but he thought he was God. So it is no surprise that the man was a great artist, but a jerk.
Publishers Weekly has said, “The book elaborates on the details of Picasso's inspirations, with Richardson providing a balance of fact, salacious detail and art-historical critique.”
This is the third volume of Richard’s biography on Picasso. Click here to read the NYT article, as well as visit Amazon for more details.
Long and extensive, the book finishes just over 600 pages.
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