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Title: Picasso Erotique by Pablo Picasso, Annie Le Brun, Pascal Quignard, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Patrick Roegiers, Malen Gual, Jean Clair ISBN: 3-7913-2561-2 Publisher: Prestel USA Pub. Date: 14 June, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $70.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Picasso as life force
Comment: In their Preface to this remarkable book (published to accompany exhibitions in Paris, Montreal, and Barcelona) Guy Cogeval, Jean Clair, and Maria Teresa Ocana assert that all of the art of Pablo Picasso - whether visual or literary - was "guided by a specifically Spanish eroticism, a medley of sensuality and tenderness, of scatology and gluttony." Curator and editor Clair has assembled a group of erudite and sometimes thrilling essayists, and 350 or so plates of Picasso's most obviously erotic topics, whether sketches, paintings, sculpture - from his entire art-producing life (beginning at age 9!). Mythology, religion, linguistics, classical influences, and Picasso's upbringing and circumstances and adult life (among many other things) are all explored in the dozen essays that make this book such great reading.
Clair's own "The School of Darkness" is a heady and passionate appreciation of Picasso. He contributes right off to the decades-old debate regarding Picasso's view and treatment of women. He defends the artist and the man, rejecting portrayals of Picasso as " the ogre, the dark demon, the wife-eating Minotaur," quoting writer Micheline Sauvage's words on Don Juan: "Not the profaner of love, but the hero of profane love." Picasso possessed energy and drive that included prodigious eating, drinking, sexual expression, writing, the production of art, and more art.
Housekeeping out of the way, Clair's essay grows into something remarkable: part biography, part chant. If you read it aloud you might well amaze and delight yourself and your listener.
Annie Le Brun's "Painting in the Bedroom" successfully places Picasso's erotic sensibilities and drive in context and in comparison to other painters, whom she asserts (and proves) shared traits with Picasso. 'Diamond Made of All the Love of the Loves of Blood,' (the title comes from a diary entry of the artist) by Marie-Noelle Delorme is a fabulous compilation, effectively and subtlely organized, that shows Picasso the energetic and larger-than-life diarist - a passionate and powerful writer on love, bodies, intimate landscapes, and much more.
The illustrations - a "Chronological Catalogue of Exhibited Works," fill over 200 pages. The layout and the colors are good and the plates are big enough. There are oil paintings, etchings, drawings in pencil, colored pencil, chalk, ink, and charcoal; aquatint, drypoint, etchings; sculptures in wood, plaster, clay and bronze - and more. The earliest drawing is a copulation scene, "Donkey and She-Ass," done by a nine-year old Picasso - who as a schoolboy was already drawing confidently and well and, it can be argued, had already found his voice.
The works are of men, women, animals together, animals with people, blind men, lovers, voyeurs, brothel scenes, outsized genitalia, mythological beasts and people, nudes in classical poses, Cubist paintings on erotic themes, sketches of solicitude and tenderness and caring, playfully altered pin-ups from the 50's, visions of sexuality altered but undimmed by old age, and much more.
By virtue of its twelve strong, smart, passionate essays, and its 300 plates, this book becomes much more than the sum of its parts. Very worthwhile, and a great read.
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Title: Matisse Picasso by Henri Matisse, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, John Golding, John Elderfield, Anne Baldassari, Pablo Picasso, Kirk Varnedoe, Elizabeth Cowling ISBN: 0870700081 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York Pub. Date: 15 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Louvre: Portrait of a Museum by Nicholas D'Archimbaud ISBN: 0810982153 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.98 |
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Title: Photo Sex: Fine Art Sexual Photography Comes of Age by David Steinberg, A.D. Coleman ISBN: 0940208326 Publisher: Down There Pr Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Matisse and Picasso: The Story of their Rivalry and Friendship by Jack D. Flam, Jack Flam ISBN: 0813365813 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors by Jane Kallir, Ivan Vartanian ISBN: 0500511160 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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