Part of a series which introduces key artists and movements in art history, this book deals with Picasso. Each title in the series contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative black and white illustrations.

Picasso: His Life and Work.

Arts & Photography

PENROSE, Roland

Individual Artists

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Man Ray

Man Ray documents the portrait and fashion photographs of this artist who excelled at capturing the body in a truly original style. Man Ray (Philadelphia 1890 Paris 1976), who started his career as a painter, was perhaps the first artist to recognise the potential of photography as more than a way of reproducing reality. He was a leading exponent of the Dadaist movement and then went on to produce some of the most memorable surrealist images. Never frivolous or mundanc, the photographs of Man Ray are guaranteed to disturb, disorient and delight in equal parts.

NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY

Experiments in photography: The artist who brought Surrealism to a new medium       Man Ray (1890-1976) is indisputably one of the most original artists of the 20th century. His revolutionary nude studies, fashion work, and portraits opened a new chapter in the history of photography. Born under the name of Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, he began his artistic career in New York. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where he was enthusiastically welcomed into Dadaist and Surrealist circles. Man Ray experimented tirelessly with new photographic techniques, multiple exposure, rayography, and solarization being some of his most famous. Erotic, playful, and sometimes sinister, his compositions show unusual bodies and objects: strange, striking images that transform our perceptions of reality. This collection of famous, lesser known, and unknown works fully illustrates Man Ray’s singular visionary power.

A distinguished art critic and close friend traces Miro's evolution from peasant artist to transcendentalist

Miro (World of Art)

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

Miró (World of Art)

Portrait of Picasso

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: Jun Publisher: Thames &amp; Hudson. Limited Click on the Google Preview image above to the read some pages of this book! The Containing uncensored and on-the-spot observations of Picasso at home and in company. the Visiting Picasso is a wonderfully vivid. spontaneous and lively record of Roland Penroses many encounters with the artist and his family. friends and associates. from their first meeting in 1936 to the artists death in 1973. Over 70 photographs. many by Penroses wife Lee Miller. illustrate the colourful cast of characters. including Dora Maar. Franoise Gilot. Jean Cocteau and Georges aque. as well as artworks and events described.

Visiting Picasso The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose (Paperback) /anglais

Reference

Drawn from the private notebooks and correspondence of Roland Penrose, an intriguing firsthand account of the life and personality of Pablo Picasso. Published here for the first time, these lively writings bring to life with a rare vividness the work, ideas, and milieu of Roland Penrose's friend—and the subject of his much-acclaimed 1958 biography—Pablo Picasso. What makes the notebooks and correspondence so important is also what makes them so exhilarating and fresh. They are not reconstructions after the event, filtered through memory or rephrased with an eye to literary style. The immediacy of the jottings gives the reader the uncanny sensation of actually being present during Penrose's frequent encounters with Picasso and his circle—at home with the artist, at bullfights, at the beach, in the studio. The book is filled with anecdotes, incidents, sharp details, and actual conversations that are unconstrained by deference, objectivity, or the need for discretion. Confidential, off-the-record remarks made by the artist's family, associates, and former lovers are all here, as are Penrose's own candid observations of Picasso's behavior. Fascinating descriptions of Picasso at work afford rare insights into the making of his masterpieces, including Guernica and other great works up to the time of his death. Some sixty photographs—mostly taken by Penrose or his wife, Lee Miller—show the colorful cast of characters, from Gary Cooper to Françoise Gilot, from Alfred Barr to Dora Maar, as well as the events and art described, and add to the record of a remarkable relationship. 60 illustrations.

Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose

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Picasso: His Life and Work.

Man Ray

Man Ray

Man Ray

Miro (World of Art)

Miró (World of Art)

Man Ray

Portrait of Picasso

Visiting Picasso The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose (Paperback) /anglais

Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose