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Picasso (The World of Art)
Oxford University Press | 1975 | ISBN: 0195199360 | English | 270 pages | PDF | 33.7 MB

There have been many books about this astonishing artist, most of them written as celebrations of his creative abundance. Timothy Hilton has a more challenging purpose: to define Picasso's achievement and his place within twentieth-century art. The constant factor among all Picasso's startling changes of style is his response to other artists, and the conflicts within his work are those of twentieth - century art itself. In his apprentice years he matched himself against the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, echoing even Van Gogh; and in his blue period, with its haunting message of isolation, he became the last and greatest Symbolist painter. Cubism, which he and Braque created together, is a working out of Cezanne's radical discoveries about the nature of space. The violent distortions that alternate with classicism in Picasso's work between the two world wars reflect a crisis within modern art that led others, but never Picasso, to abstraction.