Throughout his artistic career Picasso was fascinated by both caricature and the idea of the grotesque: light and dark representations of the distorted human figure. Picasso: From Caricature to Metamorphosis of Style, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, is the first book to examine the distortion of the figure as a central creative force in Picasso's art and a springboard for his continual process of stylistic metamorphosis. The journey through Picasso's work takes us from the satirical illustration and portrait caricature of the 1890s to the radical distortion of the figure in Les Demoiselles D'Avignon and later Cubist portraits; from light-hearted vignettes of Diaghilev, Bakst and Apollinaire to the monstrous, Surrealist portraits of women of the 1920s-40s; from portraits of the artist as clown to the Verve series of meditations on the painter and his model. Finally we see Picasso as caricatured by his entourage: the tables are turned. Caricatures, monsters, puppets and grotesque figures populate the pages of this book, which is illustrated with 400 reproductions of key works by Picasso drawn from public and private collections worldwide: paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics and prints. More than 100 of the works reproduced are previously unpublished. With a series of interpretative essays by an international cast of distinguished Picasso scholars, the book is essential reading for all those with an interest in the life and work of a twentieth-century master.

Picasso: From Charicature to Metamorphosis of Style

Arts & Photography

Ocaña, María Teresa

Melot, Michel

Léal, Brigitte

Dupuis-Labbé, Dominique

Gervereau, Laurent

Delorme, Marie-Noëlle

Hofmann, Werner

Bozal, Valeriano

History & Criticism

Lund Humphries

-Details the pioneering initiative to elucidate portraiture and its significance in society during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -The exhibition brings together works from approximately forty museums and private collections in Europe and the United States The historical period commonly referred to as the Belle Époque—the final decades of the nineteenth century and the beginning years of the twentieth—continues to intrigue primarily because of the progressive changes that occurred in the arts, which spanned the period from Impressionism to the early avant-garde movements. Although the art created during this era garnered esteem and a following, certain aspects of the artistic life that were crucial at the time have since been obscured or forgotten. One of the goals of the exhibition Portraits of the Belle Époque is to bring light to the art that characterized life through portraiture, a genre that not only best defines the timeframe but one that also illuminates the relationship between art and the society of the time

Portraits of the Belle Epoque

Pedraza, PIlar

Devynck, Danièle

Guidi, Barbara

Reference

Hudson Hills

En esta Historia Valeriano Bozal logra integrar en una evolución coherente las expresiones artísticas -pintura, escultura, arquitectura- en relación con la sociedad en que se han desarrollado, ofreciendo un panorama sistemático de las artes de sus comienzos prehistóricos hasta los movimientos más recientes, y donde se ab

Historia del Arte en Espana II (Fundamentos)

History

ISTMO, S.A.

Crónica de una década y Cambios de lugar

A. Machado Libros S. A.

Historia de la pintura y la escultura del siglo XX en España: I. 1900-1939

Goya

English as a Second Language

Despite its longevity as a tradition stretching back to at least the eighteenth century, the Grotesque has only recently become a non-pejorative term in art and academia. The Grotesque Factor takes a close look at the evolution of the Grotesque, examining early caricature (Hogarth, Goya), abject, scatological and black humor, nineteenth-century French art and literature (Grandville, Baudelaire, Jarry), Jame Ensor, the grotesque in early film and the grotesque turn in recent British art. It includes 175 extraordinary works by more than 76 artists, including Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Otto Dix, James Ensor, Max Ernst, José Gutiérrez Solana, Victor Hugo, Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, René Magritte, Man Ray, Franz Xavier Messerschmidt, Juan Muñoz, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Antonio Saura, Thomas Schütte, Cindy Sherman, Leonardo da Vinci, Bill Viola and Franz West, among others.

The Grotesque Factor

Clayton, Martin

Dreux, Emmanuel

Connelly, Frances

Fundación Museo Picasso Málaga/Legado Paul, Christine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso

Details the pioneering initiative to elucidate portraiture and its significance in society during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the historical period. 

Ediciones El Viso.

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