Picasso The Foreigner An Artist In France, 1900 1973
Author: Annie Cohen-Solal; Sam Taylor (Translator)
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: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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: 01 March 2023
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"Absorbing [and] astute . . . Cohen-Solal captures a facet of Picasso's character long overlooked." --Hamilton Cain, The Wall Street Journal "A beguiling read, as ingenious as it is ambitious . . . See Picasso and Paris shimmering with new light." --Mark Braude, author of Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris Born from her probing inquiry into Picasso's odyssey in France, which inspired a museum exhibition of the same name, historianAnnie-Cohen Solal's Picasso the Foreigner presents a bold new understanding of the artist's career and his relationship with the country he called home.
Picasso the Foreigner approaches the artist's career and work from an entirely new angle, making extensive use of fascinating and long-understudied archival sources. In this groundbreaking narrative, Picasso emerges as an artist ahead of his time not only aesthetically but politically, one who ignored national modes in favor of contemporary cosmopolitan forms. Cohen-Solal reveals how, in a period encompassing the brutality of World War I, the Nazi occupation, and Cold War rivalries, Picasso strategized and fought to preserve his agency, eventually leaving Paris for good in 1955. He chose the south over the north, the provinces over the capital, and craftspeople over academicians, while simultaneously achieving widespread fame. The artist never became a citizen of France, yet he enriched and dynamized its culture like few other figures in the country's history. This book, for the first time, explains how.