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essays by Anne Baldassari, Pierre Daix, Michael C. FitzGerald, Brigitte Léal, Marilyn McCully, Robert Rosenblum, William Rubin, Hélène Seckel, Kirk Varnedoe.

Portraiture has managed to flourish in modern painting in spite of the popularization of photography, the decline of traditional patronage, and modernism's increasing emphasis on abstraction. However problematic modern styles have been for representational art, painters have continued to discover new possibilities in the imaging of the human face. This book explores the challenge of the modernist portrait through the multiple solutions proposed by its foremost protagonist and, in so doing, becomes the first volume ever published on the subject of Picasso and portraiture. The hundreds of works reproduced here—most of them unfamiliar, some virtually unknown — demonstrate the remarkable range of Picasso's experimentation in all its stylistic and psychological diversity.
The book opens with an authoritative, broadranging essay by William Rubin; the nine essays that follow—all by major contemporary scholars and critics—examine different periods and aspects of Picasso's career and clarify personal relationships between the artist and his subjects. It closes with an essay by Mr. Rubin on the late portraits. Numerous photographs, some never before published and many by outstanding photographers, present the portrait subjects as seen through the eye of the camera.

This book, published to accompany a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, opening in April 1996, no doubt will long remain the definitive work on its subject.

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Autore/i edited by William S. Rubin
Editore The Museum of Modern Art Luogo New York
Anno 1996 Pagine 496
Dimensioni 23x31x4 (cm) Illustrazioni 216 ill. a colori, 541 ill. b/n n.t. - colors and b/w ills
Legatura bross. ill. a colori - paperback Conservazione Nuovo - New
Lingua Inglese - English text Peso 2800 (gr)
ISBN 0870701428 EAN-13 9780870701429