A Picasso Anthology

by McCully, Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9780691003481
• ISBN10: 0691003483
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

Picasso's extraordinary capacity to work in a variety of mediums and styles has amazed his critics since the first years of the century. This collection of critical and personal reactions to Picasso at every stage of his career provides a remarkable account of the many innovations and changes of direction that baffled his contemporaries. Picasso's working methods and his attitudes to his own art are also revealed in conversations and in letters and statements by his closest friends. A Picasso Anthologycontains a wide range and variety of contemporary responses to Picasso and his art. There are essential passages from books by his close friends, including Apollinaire, Cocteau, and Roland Penrose; an important body of Catalan and Spanish criticism; reactions from English critics, including Roger Fry and John Middleton; a remarkable collection of Russian criticism of his cubist work, written in the years just before the Revolution; and Czech, Danish, and Italian articles, as well as mainstream texts from France and Germany.

Table of Contents

Introduction	11	(7)
I. The early years	18	(28)
Jaime Sabartes
(1897) On Science and Charity	21	(1)
Manuel Rodriguez Codola
1900 Els IV Gats: Ruiz Picazzo Exhibition	21	(2)
Sebastia Trullol i Plana
1900 Picasso at Els Quatre Gats	23	(1)
Unidentified visitor
1900 Picasso at Els Quatre Gats	24	(1)
Charles Ponsonailhe
1900 Derniers Moments at the Paris Exposition	25	(2)
Carles Casagemas
1900 Letter from Paris (25 October) to Ramon Reventos	27	(3)
Pablo Picasso
Carles Casagemas
1900 Letter from Paris (11 November) to Ramon Reventos	30	(2)
Miquel Utrillo
1901 On Arte Joven	32	(1)
Pablo Picasso
1901 Letter from Madrid to Miquel Utrillo	32	(1)
Gustave Coquiot
1901 Review of the exhibition at Vollard's gallery, Paris	32	(2)
Pere Coll
1901 Review of the exhibition at Vollard's gallery, Paris	34	(1)
Pablo Picasso
1901 Letter from Paris (13 July) to Vidal Ventosa	35	(2)
Max Jacob
(1901) Meeting Picasso in Paris	37	(1)
Pablo Picasso
1902 Letter from Barcelona (13 July) to Max Jacob	38	(3)
Pablo Picasso
1903 Letter from Barcelona to Max Jacob	41	(1)
El Liberal
1903 On La Vie	41	(1)
Carlos Juner-Vidal
1904 Picasso and his work	42	(4)
2. Picasso moves to Paris and the development of Cubism	46	(30)
Fernande Olivier
(1904) Picasso at the `Bateau-Lavoir'	49	(2)
Pablo Picasso
1905 Letter from Paris (22 February) to Jacinto Reventos	51	(1)
Guillaume Apollinaire
1905 The Young: Picasso, Painter	52	(2)
Jaume Pasarell
(1905) Picasso in Tiana	54	(1)
Max Jacob
(1905-7) Picasso, Apollinaire, Salmon and Jacob	54	(1)
Andre Salmon
(1907) On Les Demoiselles d'Avignon	55	(3)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
(1907) On Les Demoiselles d'Avignon	58	(3)
Fernande Olivier
(1908) The banquet for Douanier Rousseau	61	(1)
Gertrude Stein
(1908) The banquet for Douanier Rousseau	61	(1)
Andre Salmon
(1908) Response to Gertrude Stein	62	(2)
Georges Braque
(1908-10) Response to Gertrude Stein	64	(1)
Gertrude Stein
(1909) Concerning Cubism	65	(1)
Fernande Olivier
1910 Letter from Paris (17 June) to Gertrude Stein	66	(3)
Josep Pla
(1910) Manolo on Cubism	69	(1)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
(1910) On Cubism	69	(4)
Gino Severini
(1912) On Souvenirs du Havre	73	(1)
Guillaume Apollinaire
1913 Picasso, Cubist painter	74	(2)
3. Picasso's critical reputation outside France	76	(26)
Roger Fry
1910 The Post-Impressionists: Picasso	79	(1)
Arthur Hoeber
1911 Review of Photo-Secession exhibition, New York	79	(1)
The Craftsman
1911 Review of Photo-Secession exhibition, New York	80	(1)
Huntly Carter
1911 The Plato-Picasso Idea	81	(1)
John Middleton Murry
1911 The Art of Pablo Picasso	82	(2)
The Art Chronicle
1912 Review of Stafford Gallery exhibition, London	84	(1)
Roger Fry
1912 The Second Post-Impressionist exhibition	85	(2)
Ramon Reventos
1912 Review of Ca'n Dalmau exhibition, Barcelona	87	(1)
Josep Junoy
1912 Picasso's Art	87	(4)
Max Pechstein
1912 What is Picasso up to?	91	(1)
Max Raphael
1912 Open Letter to Herr Pechstein	92	(2)
Ludwig Coellen
1912 Romanticism in Picasso	94	(4)
Heinrich Thannhauser
1913 Moderne Galerie exhibition, Munich	98	(1)
M. K. Rohe
1913 Review of Moderne Galerie exhibition, Munich	98	(2)
Wilhelm Bode
1913 The new art of Futurists and Cubists	100	(1)
Hans Arp
L. H. Neitzel
1913 The Cubists	100	(2)
4. The war years	102	(34)
Georgy Chulkov
1914 Picasso's demons	104	(3)
Yakov Tugendhold
1914 Picassos in the Shchukin collection	107	(3)
Nikolay Berdyaev
1914 Picasso	110	(3)
Ivan Aksenov
(1915) Picasso's painting	113	(6)
Jean Cocteau
(1917) Picasso in Rome	119	(3)
Enrico Prampolini
(1917) Picasso in Rome	122	(3)
Axel Salto
(1916) Visiting Picasso in Paris	125	(1)
Joan Miro
(1919) Visiting Picasso in Paris	126	(2)
Guillaume Apollinaire
1917 Calligram	128	(1)
Guillaume Apollinaire
1918 Preface to Matisse-Picasso exhibition, Paris	129	(1)
Guillaume Apollinaire
1918 Letter (late summer) to Picasso	130	(1)
Guillaume Apollinaire
1918 Letter (4 September) to Picasso	130	(2)
Roger Allard
1919 Picasso's latest paintings	132	(4)
5. The twenties	136	(42)
Andre Salmon
1920 Picasso	138	(7)
Clive Bell
1920 Picasso as an intellectual artist	145	(1)
Vauvrecy (Amedee Ozenfant)
1921 Picasso's language	146	(2)
Vaclav Nebesky
1921 The nature of space in Picasso's work	148	(3)
Vicenc Kramar
1922 Manes Gallery exhibition, Prague	151	(3)
Vladimir Mayakovsky
1922 Picasso's studio	154	(1)
Picasso
1923-4 Statement about art	155	(1)
Andre Breton
1925 Picasso and Surrealism	155	(2)
Josep Llorens Artigas
1925 Pau Ruiz Picasso	157	(1)
Georgy Yakulov
1926 Picasso	158	(2)
Oskar Schurer
1926 Picasso's classicism	160	(3)
E. Teriade
1927 Picasso's quest	163	(3)
Carl Einstein
1928 Picasso: the last decade	166	(4)
Sebastia Gasch
1928 Picasso	170	(2)
Max J. Friedlander
1929 On style and manner	172	(2)
Andre Schaeffner
1930 The man with the clarinet	174	(1)
Leon Pierre-Quint
1930 Doubt and revelation in the work of Picasso	175	(3)
6. The thirties	178	(36)
Waldemar George
1931 Picasso's 50th birthday and the death of still life	180	(2)
Carl G. Jung
1932 Picasso	182	(4)
Will Grohmann
1932 Dialectic and transcendence in Picasso's work	186	(3)
Carles Capdevila
1934 Picasso at the Barcelona Museum	189	(2)
Salvador Dali
1935 Invitation to the Picasso exhibition, Barcelona	191	(2)
Juli Gonzalez
1935 From Paris	193	(1)
Paul Eluard
1935 I speak of what is right	194	(3)
Andre Breton
1935 Picasso poet	197	(3)
Eugeni d'Ors
1936 Open letter to Picasso	200	(2)
Christian Zervos
1937 On Guernica	202	(4)
Jose Bergamin
1937 The Mystery Trembles: Picasso Furioso	206	(3)
Herbert Read
1938 Picasso's Guernica	209	(2)
Roland Penrose
(1937) The Woman Weeping	211	(1)
Andre Lhote
1939 Picasso's reputation	212	(2)
7. World War II and after	214	(33)
Wyndham Lewis
1940 On Guernica	215	(1)
Jaime Sabartes
(1939) A new portrait	216	(2)
Brassai
(1939) On Sabartes' portrait	218	(1)
Harriet
Sidney Janis
(1942) On Dora Maar's portrait	218	(2)
Brassai
(1943) Conversations with Picasso	220	(2)
Georges Limbour
1944 Picasso at the Autumn Salon	222	(2)
Harriet
Sidney Janis
(1944) Picasso's studio	224	(1)
John Pudney
1944 Picasso -- A Glimpse in Sunlight	225	(2)
Jerome Seckler
1945 Picasso Explains	227	(2)
Francoise Gilot
(1946) On La Femme Fleur	229	(4)
Tristan Tzara
1947-8 Picasso and the knowledge of space	233	(2)
Rene Gaffe
1947-8 Picasso a sculptor?	235	(1)
Willy Boers
1947-8 Lithographs by Picasso	236	(2)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
(1948) Talking to Picasso	238	(2)
Francoise Gilot
(1949) Aragon and the Dove	240	(1)
Ilya Ehrenburg
(1948-56) Picasso and peace	241	(2)
Andre Breton
1961 80 carats... with a single flaw	243	(2)
Maurice Raynal
1952 Picasso's revelation	245	(2)
8. The last twenty years	247	(31)
Rosamond Bernier
1955 Picasso on Altdorfer	249	(1)
Helene Parmelin
(1955) Concerning Lola de Valence	249	(2)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
(1955) Conversations about the Femmes d'Alger	251	(4)
Michel Leiris
1959 Picasso and Las Meninas by Velazquez	255	(4)
Lionel Prejger
1961 Picasso cuts out iron	259	(3)
Georges Sadoul
1961 Picasso as a film-director	262	(3)
Roland Penrose
(1963) A monument for Chicago	265	(3)
Roland Penrose
1968 Some recent drawings by Picasso	268	(2)
Roberto Otero
(1968) On Suite 347	270	(1)
Brassai
1971 The master at 90	270	(4)
Pierre Daix
1973 The last exhibition at Avignon	274	(3)
Brassai
Edouard Pignon
Picasso on death	277	(1)
Postscript	278	(7)
John Richardson
1980 Picasso: a retrospective view	278	(7)
Abbreviations	285	(1)
Index	286