John Richardson

A Life of Picasso Volume I (eBook, ePUB)

1881-1906

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From 1950 to 1962, John Richardson lived near Picasso in France and was a friend of the artist. With a view to writing a biography, the acclaimed art historian kept a diary of their meetings. After Picasso's death, his widow Jacqueline collaborated in the preparation of this work, giving Richardson access to Picasso's studio and papers.

Volume one of this extraordinary biography establishes the complexity of Picasso's Spanish roots; his aversion to his native Malaga and his passion for Barcelona and Catalan "modernisme". Richardson introduces new material on the artist's early training in religious art; re-examines old legends to provide fresh insights into the artistic failures of Picasso's father as an impetus to his sons's triumphs; and includes portraits of Apollinaire, Max Jacob and Gertrude Stein, who made up "The Picasso Gang" in Paris during the "Blue" and "Rose" periods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781409016571
• Artikelnr.: 37863637

Autorenporträt

John Richardson was born in London in 1924. He studied art at the Slade School but soon gave up painting for art criticism. In 1949 he moved to France, where he lived for the next twelve years, befriending Picasso, Braque, Léger, and Cocteau. In the early 1960s Richardson moved to New York, where he was appointed head of Christie's US operation, and eventually became a full-time writer and editor. He has published books on Manet and Braque and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. The first volume of A Life of Picasso, covering the years 1881-1906, was published in 1991 and won the Whitbread Prize. The second volume of A Life of Picasso, covering the years 1907-1917, was published in 1996.

In 1993 Richardson was made a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. In 1994-95 he served as the Slade Professor of Art at Oxford. Currently he divides his time between Connecticut and New York City, where is working on the fourth volume of A Life of Picasso

Inhaltsangabe

1.
* I: Introduction
2. 1: Málaga
3. 2: Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Son and Heir
4. 3: Corunna
5. 4: The Move to Barcelona
6. 5: Sacret Subjects
7. 6: Madrid 1897-98
8. 7: Horta de Ebro
9. 8: Barcelona 1899
10. 9: Els Quatre Gats
11. 10: Yo el Rey
12. 11: First Trip to Paris
13. 12: Madrid 1901
14. 13: Success at Vollard's
15. 14: Painter of Human Misery
16. 15: Barcelona 1902
17. 16: La vie
18. 18: Farewell to Barcelona
19. 19: Montmartre and the Bateau Lavor
20. 20: La Belle Fernande
21. 21: The Apollinaire Period
22. 22: Dealers and Dénicheurs
23. 23: The Absence of Jarry
24. 24: Au Lapin Agile
25. 25: Collectors and Patrons
26. 26: Two or Three Geniuses
27. 27: Plundering the Past
28. 28: Summer at Gósol
29. 29: The Mantle of Gauguin
30. 30: Dionysos
31.
* II: Family Tree
* III: Principal Sources
* IV: Short Titles and Notes
* V: Index