THE ARTIST, HIS MODEL, HER IMAGE, HIS GAZE

In this innovative study, Karen L. Kleinfelder rejects the claim that Picasso's later work was a failure. The failing, she claims, l ies more in the way we typically have read the images, treating them merely as reflections of an old-age style or of the artist's pr ivate life.Focusing on graphics dating from 1954 to 1970, Kleinfelder shows how Picasso plays with the artist-model theme to extend, subvert, and parody both the possibilities and limits of representation. For Kleinfelder, Picasso's graphic work both mystifies and demysti...[Llegir més]