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<p>In the second volume of his definitive biography of Pablo Picasso, John Richardson draws on the same combination of lively writing, critical astuteness, exhaustive research and personal experience that made a bestseller out of the first volume and vividly re-creates the artist's life and work during the crucial decade of 1907-1917--a period during which Picasso and Georges Braque invented cubism and to that extent engendered modernism. Thanks to his friendship with Picasso and his family, mistresses, friends, dealers and other associates, Richardson has had unique access to untapped sources and unpublished material. By harnessing biography to art history, he has managed to crack the code of cubism more successfully than any of his predecessors. And by bringing fresh light to bear on the artist's too often sensationalized private life, he has succeeded in coming up with a totally new view of this paradoxical man and of his paradoxical work. Never before has Picasso's prodigious technique, his incisive vision and, not least, his sardonic humor been analyzed with such clarity.<br> <br> Richardson reveals that the young Picasso saw himself in the Baudelairean role of "the painter of

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Author

John Richardson with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394559186

Category

history

Subjects

Art, History, Biography

Rating

4.21 / 5 (206 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14