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Picasso. Architecture and Vertigo

Door Christopher Green

Categorie
Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer
#237638
Titel
Picasso. Architecture and Vertigo
Auteur
Green, Christopher
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New Haven/London, Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2005
ISBN10
030010412X
ISBN13
9780300104127
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting

The starting point of this exciting new exploration of Picasso is not his life but his work, which is revealed as a series of interventions in the troubled history of early twentieth-century Europe. Christopher Green shows how these interventions are remarkable for the force with which they confront issues that remain vital and important for us today: race, cultural difference, modernity, sexuality and the discontents of civilization. The framework for Green's exploration is simple, yet enormously rich in its implications: the compulsion found in Picasso's work simultaneously to build architectures and to release himself from them. Architecture is used by Green to refer not merely to pictorial or sculptural structure, but to the architecture of knowledge and society: the structures of tr
... (Lees verder)adition, of racial, social and cultural distinction, of logic and of technology. He not only develops new ways of seeing the oscillation between order and disorder in Picasso's work, but moves outwards from it to reveal how it confronted and challenged the architectures of orthodoxy.
Pagina's
299
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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