MYTH AND METAMORPHOSIS

Previous studies of Picasso's involvement with the classical have tended to concentrate on the period immediately following the Firs t World War, and to attribute that involvement to both the rise of political conservatism in France and the domesticating influence of the artist's marriage to Olga Koklova. Focusing instead on the later, classicizing prints of the 1930s, this book offers a radica lly different view of Picasso and the classical--a view that aligns his work much more closely with Surrealist, and specifically Bat aillean, ...[Read more]