Picasso's World of Children

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Author(s)	Werner Spies
Editor	Prestel	Place	Munich - New York
Year	1994	Pages	130
Measure	18x24 (cm)	Illustration	61 ill. a colori, 48 ill. b/n n.t. - colors and b/w ills
Binding	cart. edit. con sovracc. ill. colori - Hardcover with dustjacket	Conservazione	usato come nuovo - used like new
Language	Inglese - English text	Weight	1000 (gr)
ISBN	3791313754	EAN-13	9783791313757
price	21.60 €	discount	40%
discount price	12.96 €

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The theme of children and childhood, a highly popular subject with the great painters and sculptors of the past, has received comparatively little attention in twentieth-century art. Here, as in so many other respects, the work of Pablo Picasso stands out as a major exception.
Picasso's many portraits and other depictions of children constitute one of the most immediately accessible and appealing facets of his extraordinarily varied oeuvre.
This fascinating new study by Werner Spies, one of the foremost connoisseurs of Picasso's work, examines the artist's approach to the subject of the child against the background of his turbulent personal life, the development of this restlessly innovative aesthetic thinking, an the general ideas about the significance of childhood and youth that have played such a key role in shaping modern culture.
Sumptuously illustrated, and packed with original and stimulating insights, the book offers an enticing introduction to Picasso's magical world of children, and to his visual universe as a whole. (T-CA)