Picasso Style and Meaning

by Cowling, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780714842936
• ISBN10: 0714842931
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

A ground-breaking book in Picasso scholarship in which Elizabeth Cowling presents a fresh, lucid and detailed analysis of the controversial subject of style in Picasso's work up to the outbreak of World War II. Showing how Picasso drew on the work of other artists and events in his own life and times, she reveals how Picasso consciously manipulated style to convey meaning. Well known as an authority on Picasso, the author has spent nearly ten years researching and writing this major new synthesis. Combining biography, historical background and masterful analysis into a fluent and enthralling narrative, it is full of fresh insights into Picasso's methods and motives, and destined to become the classic introduction to the study of Picasso.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Cowling teaches Art History at the University of Edinburgh. A specialist in Picasso since the mid 1980s, she has been involved in research on this book for nearly 10 years. A curator of the exhibition 'Picasso: Sculptor/Painter' (Tate Gallery, London, 1994), she was also co-curator of the 'Matisse/Picasso' exhibition (Tate Modern, London; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; MoMA, New York, 2002-3).