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**A groundbreaking reassessment of Picasso by one of today's preeminent art historians**__Picasso and Truth__ offers a breathtaking and original new look at the most significant artist of the modern era. From Pablo Picasso's early __The Blue Room__ to the later __Guernica__, eminent art historian T. J. Clark offers a striking reassessment of the artist's paintings from the 1920s and 1930s. Why was the space of a room so basic to Picasso's worldview? And what happened to his art when he began to feel that room-space become too confined—too little exposed to the catastrophes of the twentieth century? Clark explores the role of space and the interior, and the battle between intimacy and monstrosity, in Picasso's art. Based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of Art, this volume remedies the biographical and idolatrous tendencies of most studies on Picasso, reasserting the structure and substance of the artist's work.With compelling insight, Clark focuses on three central works—the large-scale __Guitar and Mandolin on a Table__ (1924), __The Three Dancers__ (1925), and __The Painter and His Model__ (1927)—and explores Picasso's answer to Niet

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Author

T. J. Clark

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691209524

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, History, Arts

Rating

3.8 / 5 (50 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14