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Myth and Metamorphosis: Picasso's Classical Prints of the 1930s

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0-262-06213-5, 9780262062138
Open Library ID
OL17002861M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12491773 bytes)
Edition
illustrated edition
Pages
280\280
Topic
Art Graphic Arts
Library
natahaus
Time added
2009-12-12 22:18:48

Description

The book's argument is built around detailed analyses of several separate print series: Picasso's illustrations for Ovid's Metamorphoses, the etchings of the Vollard Suite, and The Minotauromachy. Common to all of them, the book shows, is a strong engagement not only with the classical, but with the viewer. In the latter, Picasso's prints are clearly at odds with the understanding of the relationship between classical art and its audience that prevailed throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--an understanding that held the work's purported autonomy to mirror the viewer's own. By exposing that autonomy as a fantasy, Picasso opens the "classical" work and its viewer alike to the entanglements of desire and the dissolution of boundaries it inevitably brings. пароль: infanata

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