Myth and Metamorphosis: Picasso's Classical Prints of the 1930s

By Lisa Florman

Book Overview

Previous studies of Picasso's involvement with the classical have tended to concentrate on the period immediately following the First World war, and to attribute that involvement to both the rise of political conservatism in France and the domesticating influence of the artist's marriage to Olga Koklova. Focusing instead on the later, classicizing prints of the 1930s, this book offers a radically different view of Picasso and the classical -a view that aligns his work much more closely with Surrealist, and specifically Bataillean, revisions of antiquity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262062135
• ISBN13: 9780262062138
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.4"