Pablo Picasso

by Spies, Werner

• ISBN13: 9783775709095
• ISBN10: 3775709096
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-15
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

For years Pablo Picasso's sculptural oeuvre was one of the best-kept secrets of 20th century art. It was only through retrospectives in Paris, London and New York during the 1960's that Picasso the sculptor became known to a larger public*who discovered a complexity and variety in his sculptures that easily rivals that of his paintings and drawings. Pablo Picasso: The Sculpturesis catalogue raisonna of Picasso's sculptures, a seminal work informed by conversations between the author, Picasso specialist Werner Spies, and Picasso himself. The present edition has been thoroughly revised and now includes numerous color illustrations of important pieces. In all this volume features over 740 works by the artist, ranging from miniature paper figures to constructions from metal, wood, and found objects, from folding sculptures made from tin to massive, at times monumental works. A definitive statement on Picasso's sculptural oeuvre, this book provides a key to understanding and appreciating works that, in their ingenuity and their inventiveness, still provide an inexhaustible source of inspiration for today's artists.

Table of Contents

Introduction	13	(1)
A Well-Kept Secret	14	(1)
The Discovery of the Sculptural Oeuvre	15	(1)
The Path to Sculpture	16	(2)
Seated Woman of 1902	18	(2)
The Fascination with the Monstrous	20	(3)
Masquerade and Dematerialization	23	(3)
Larger Works	26	(5)
Gosol and the Rejection of the Psychological	31	(1)
Mask and Formal Variation: Non-European Influences	32	(3)
Physiognomic Abbreviation: Head of a Woman	35	(11)
The Syncretism of Primitive Forms: Non-European Art	46	(2)
Individual Points of Contact: Masks and Fetishes	48	(1)
A Storehouse of Forms: The Principle of Repetition	49	(2)
The Profanation of Tribal Art	51	(1)
Projecting and Receding Forms	52	(3)
The Rejection of Narrative: The Early Sculpture within the Oeuvre as a Whole	55	(2)
Alternating Readings: Head of a Woman	57	(6)
An Incunabulum of Cubism	63	(3)
Volume and Void: Superimposed Planes	66	(2)
Neither One Thing nor Another: The Guitar	68	(8)
Metamorphosis and Role-Playing Guitar and Woman	76	(4)
The Primacy of Material: Rococo Cubism	80	(4)
The Glass of Absinth	84	(4)
Reality and Reflection	88	(3)
The Cubist Cosmogony: Constructions and Still Lifes	91	(15)
Physiognomy and Stage Sculpture: Model and Work	106	(4)
Theatrical Cubism: The Manager Figures	110	(2)
A Legible Style: The Experience of Classicism	112	(1)
Drawings in Space: Designs for a Statue	113	(3)
1928: The Year of Sculpture	116	(1)
``Of Nothing, of a Void'': The Monument to Apollinaire	117	(7)
The Conjugation of the Body: Biomorphic Distortion	124	(6)
Thinking in Metal: The Collaboration with Julio Gonzalez	130	(3)
Woman in the Garden	133	(12)
The pointe a I'oeil: The Endangering of Vision	145	(5)
Reliefs and Carved Statuettes	150	(7)
The Liquefaction of the Body: Modeling and Constructing	157	(10)
A Passion for Bones: The Atelier in Boisgeloup	167	(7)
Organic Abbreviation: Reclining Woman	174	(2)
Animal Sculpture	176	(4)
Organic Masses: Interventions in the Creative Process	180	(2)
Phsysiognomic Slippage: The Four Heads of a Woman	182	(10)
Total Asymmetry: Heads	192	(2)
Realities in Tension: Abstract Textures	194	(14)
Reusing the Remains: Found Objects and Head of a Bull	208	(12)
Intimacy and Concealment: Sculptural Sketches	220	(8)
Ornamental Movement: Large-Scale Works in Paris	228	(4)
Pregnant with the Animal: Man with Sheep	232	(8)
Death's Head	240	(1)
From Vase to Female Body: Ceramics and Sculptural Work	240	(16)
The Flowering Watering Can: Sculptural Still Lifes	256	(6)
Seeing in Relief: The ``Encyclopedic'' Sculptures	262	(8)
The Divinatory Gaze: She-Goot and Baboon and Young	270	(2)
Woman with Key	272	(2)
Codified Perception: Sculpture and Painting	274	(3)
Painted Sculptures	277	(9)
Drawing with the Scissors: Folded Sheet-Metal Sculptures	286	(24)
Life and Play on the Beach: The Group of Bathers	310	(15)
The Inclusion of the Void: Planar Sculpture	325	(7)
Epilogue	332	(2)
Notes	334	(11)
Catalogue Raisonne of the Sculptures	345	(80)
List of Illustrations in the Text	425	(2)
Chronology	427	(3)
Selected Bibliography	430	(4)
Index	434	(3)
Photo Credits	437