MODERNISM AND AUTHORITY

Modernism and Authority presents a provocative new take on the early paintings of Pablo Picasso and the writings of Guillaume Apolli naire. Charles Palermo argues that references to theology and traditional Christian iconography in the works of Picasso and Apollina ire are not mere symbolic gestures/ rather, they are complex responses to the symbolist art and poetry of figures important to them, including Paul Gauguin, Charles Morice, and Santiago Rusiñol. The young Picasso and his contemporaries experienced the challenges o f modern...[Read more]