Author: KAREN LEE KLEINFELDERPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Artist, His Model, Her Image, His Gaze
Author: KAREN LEE KLEINFELDERThe Artist, His Model, Her Image, His Gaze
Author: Karen L. KleinfelderPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226439839
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Although Pablo Picasso's name is virtually synonymous with modernity, his late graphics repeatedly turn back to the traditional theme of the artist and model. Had the aging artist turned reactionary, or is Picasso's treatment of the theme more subversive than anyone has suspected? In this innovative study, Karen L. Kleinfelder rejects the claim that Picasso's later work was a failure. The failing, she claims, lies more in the way we typically have read the images, treating them merely as reflections of an "old-age" style or of the artist's private life. Focusing on graphics dating from 1954 to 1970, Kleinfelder shows how Picasso plays with the artist-model theme to extend, subvert, and parody both the possibilities and limits of representation. For Kleinfelder, Picasso's graphic work both mystifies and demystifies the creative process, venerates and mocks the effects of aging and the artist's self-image as a living "old master," and acknowledges and denies his own fear of death. Using recent interpretive and literary theory, Kleinfelder probes the three-way relationship between artist, model, and canvas. The dynamics of this relationship provided Picasso with an open-ended textual framework for exploring the dichotomies of man/woman, self/other, and vitality/mortality. What unfolds is the artist's struggle not only with the impossibility of representing the model on canvas, but also with the inevitability of his own death. Kleinfelder explores how Picasso's means of pursuing these issues allows him to defer closure on a long, productive career. By focusing on the graphics rather than the paintings, Kleinfelder contradicts the primacy of the painted "masterpiece"; she steers the reader away from the assumption that the artist must work toward creating a final body of work that signifies the culmination of his search for a coherent identify. Picasso's search, she argues, realizes itself in the creative process. She interprets the late graphics not as a biographical statement but as a tool for investigating the possibilities of representation within the limits of Picasso's medium and his lifetime. Richly illustrated, Kleinfelder's book will open up new approaches to the late work of this complex artist.
The Image of Celestina
Author: Enrique FernándezPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487549806
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of images from its very first edition in 1499. The subsequent five centuries were punctuated by many illustrated editions; imaginary portraits of the eponymous procuress Celestina by painters such as Murillo, Goya, and Picasso; and, more recently, screen and stage adaptations. Celestina became the prototype from which later representations of procuresses and bawds derived. The Image of Celestina sheds light on the visual culture that developed around La Celestina, including paintings, illustrations, and advertisements. Enrique Fernández examines La Celestina as a mixed-media text, incorporating methods from disciplines such as art history and women’s and cinema studies, and considers a variety of images including promotional posters, lobby pictures, and playbills of theatrical and cinematic adaptations of the book. Using a visual studies approach, The Image of Celestina ultimately illuminates the culture of Celestina, a mythical figure, who surpasses the literary text in which she originated.
Historicizing Matisse's Representations of Women
Author: Patricia Ann BriggsPublisher:
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Category : Artists and models in art
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture
Author: New York Public Library. Art and Architecture DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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The Argosy
Author: Mrs. Henry WoodPublisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
A magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems.
Art and Letters
Author: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Author: James JoycePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3988289388
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
With the greatest precision, the author follows the development of his literary alter ego Stephen Dedalus from toddler to self-confident artist. It is no coincidence that the character's name is reminiscent of Daedalus in Greek mythology, who escapes from his prison with wings he built himself. Stephen, too, must free himself: he overcomes the limits of his conservative, narrow-minded upbringing in Catholic Ireland and henceforth enjoys visits to hookers as well as philosophical debates. Gröls Classics - English Edition
Journal of Comparative Literature & Aesthetics
Author: Picasso Et Les Femmes
Author: Pablo PicassoPublisher: Dumont
ISBN:
Category : Women in art
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Edited by Ingrid Mussinger, Beate Ritter and Kerstin Drechsel, Essays by Johannes M. Fox, Norman Mailer, Pierre Daix, Amanda Vail and John Richardson.