About this title: The long-awaited third volume of Richardsons definitive biography of Pablo Picasso combines the critical astuteness, exhaustive research, and stunning narrative that made the first two volumes an art-historical breakthrough as well as a pleasure to read.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2007-11-13
ISBN-13:9780307266651ISBN:0307266656
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Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2007-11-13
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Date Published: 2007-11-06
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2007
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780307266651ISBN:0307266656
Description: New in New dust jacket. 9780307266651. New stated first edition Knopf hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Protective mylar cover.; 2.1 x 9.3 x 7.3 Inches; The long-awaited third volume of John Richardson's definitive biography of Pablo Picasso combines the critical astuteness, exhaustive research, and stunning narrative that made the first two volumes an art-historical breakthrough as well as a pleasure to read. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780307266651ISBN:0307266656
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, NY
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780307266651ISBN:0307266656
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Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 2007
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hardcover. 592 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, tight copy. read more
"This is Volume 3. Volume 1 was fabulous, Vol. 2 was really interesting, volume 3 is a bit of a slog, but I am determined(and vol. 4 is ocming out next year). Full of great gossip and links between his life(especially his amazing sex life- you woudl think he was in Congress) and the art. OK Elaine?"
"This is rich, grand biography. It's the 3d volume of Richardson's monumental biography of the iconic artist. As well as being satisfyingly detailed about Picasso himself, Richardson, in relating the course of the life, has to necessarily explain those around Picasso and the events linking them. So it all becomes a big, glorious telling. But Richardson isn't all surface narrative. This is critical biography by an incisive art expert and analyst. More, as a friend of Picasso's his understanding worms deeply under the artist's skin and into his psyche. These are the years--1917 to 1932--of Olga the wife and Marie-Therese the young mistress. Richardson's thorough discussion of the individual works is especially interesting in its gloss on how these two women affected his art. That alone is worth the read. Richardson understands how Picasso made what he did, and why. Recently I read something about Richardson being concerned he might not finish his biography. I think he's now in his 80s. The next volume, I understand, is to be the last. It must be going to be a real whopper because when this 3d volume leaves Picasso he has 41 years left to live. We know that many artistic triumphs are ahead, especially the influence of the Spanish Civil War, the impact of which was apparently considerable. We know that much romantic turmoil is ahead. We know that Richardson will tell it well."
"From the end of World War I and Picasso's continued exploration of cubism, his engagement with Diaghilev and other pioneers of modernism in dance and theatre, his marriage of the modern with the classical, and his revolutionary work as a sculptor, volume three of Richardson's comprehenisve biography of Picasso is as rewarding as each of the first two volumes. There is also Picasso's marriage to Olga Khokhlova, his legal battles with dealers who lost control of their stock of Picasso's work because of the war and later with a pair of perhaps conmen who secured possession of Picasso's early work from his mother and uncle, and his relationship with Marie Therese Walter, the 17 and half year old model, muse, mistress whose relationship with the artist dominates the second half of the period covered in this volume.
Picasso lives a kind of dual life in this period, established artist and wealthy man about Paris and the Riviera, and avant garde artist, resistent to all groups and controls and answerable only to his own artistic sensibility. In one he attends balls with Olga and is chauffeured around in an extravagent car. In the other he designs radical ballet sets and costumes, confounds his dealers who want more harlequins, resists the dogmatic pull of schools of surrealism, and finds himself still contesting with Matisse, his one true rival, and longing for the former partnership with Braque. Clive Bell, the Fitzgeralds, Hemingways, Breton, Chanel, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Stravinsky, and many others make their appearances. As do many of those from the first two volumes, though Apollinaire and Diaghilev do not survive the volume. As it ends, the Spanish Civil War, which will politicize Picasso, looms. Richardon is once again brilliant, particularly in his understanding of Picasso's work, and entertaining with his wry way with the personal and professional gossip (poor Cocteau!). While he is no apologist for Picasso, the man, he has less of a grip on him than he does Picasso, the artist. He is never fully convincing in his portrayals of Picasso's character and motives in his personal relationships, the paradox of generosity and cruelty that manifests itself, for example. What, beyond a desire to marry, animated his long relationship with Olga? He does reinforce the official debunking of the myth that Picasso started his relationship with Marie Therese when she was 15 with a certain crusty dismissiveness but otherwise he seems willing to let the record stand that Picasso was brilliant and charming but also selfish, cruel, superstitious, and petty. But it's not Picasso's humanity or lack of it that compels our attention, it's his creative genuis, his artwork. And that Richardson has a very firm grip on.
I've since read in recent articles associated with Richardson's curating of the late period Picasso show at a Chelsea gallery that the next volume is to be the last one, a startling bit of news given how much is left to Picasso's life and career. Near the end of volume three Picasso turns 50 which leaves four decades to squeeze into that final volume. Don't know how Richardson will manage but he certainly has the knowledge, the perspective, and the clarity of prose to pull some sort of coherent synthesis, but still I'm betting that we're really looking at two, not one, more volumes to come in this essential work of biography."
"I think that after I read all four books by John Richardson about Pablo Picasso I will no longer feel the need to study the life of the maestro anymore. It will be a sad ending but a good one. Picasso and his art have been more than an obsession in my life. The maestro has been a source of inspiration and reflection. After I am done with these series, I will still have the art to enjoy."
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