THE SUCCESS AND FAILURE OF PICASSO

Pablo Picasso was the artist as revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the val ues of his time. At the height of his fame, he was the artist as royalty: incalculably wealthy, universally idolized--and wholly iso lated. In this stunning critical assessment, John Berger--one of this century's most insightful cultural historians--trains his pene trating gaze upon this most prodigious and enigmatic painter and on the Spanish landscape and very particular culture that shaped hi s life a...[Read more]