Picasso's World of Children

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)

Autore/i Werner Spies
Editore Prestel Luogo Munich - New York
Anno 1994 Pagine 130
Dimensioni 18x24 (cm) Illustrazioni 61 ill. a colori, 48 ill. b/n n.t. - colors and b/w ills
Legatura cart. edit. con sovracc. ill. colori - Hardcover with dustjacket Conservazione usato come nuovo - used like new
Lingua Inglese - English text Peso 1000 (gr)
ISBN 3791313754 EAN-13 9783791313757