Picasso Theatre - Hardcover

Cooper, Douglas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810903962 ISBN 13: 9780810903968

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1987

Synopsis

447 illustrations, including 68 plates in color. Bound in publisher's original ivory colored cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Picasso's interest in the theater animated his early pictures of harlequins and actors, symbolic presences on the stage of life. Then, in collaborations with Diaghilev and Massine, he designed sets and costumes for quirky ballets such as Parade, Mercure and Pulcinella. During World War II, he wrote an experimental six-act farce. Direct involvement in the theater gave the artist a chance to make his cubist inventions concrete; it also broadened his knowledge of the human body's expressive capacities. First published in 1968 and long out of print, this scrapbook with 500 illustrations includes an essay gauging the influence of the theater on Picasso's work. Drawing on material from circus and bull-ring, from cabaret and sideshow, Picasso created an illusory pictorial world, then thrust himself or his viewpoint into the spectacle. Cooper shows that even a painting such as Guernica draws its power from dramatic conventions.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0810903962
• ISBN 13: 9780810903968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368