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

Author:   Lisa Florman
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Edition:   New edition
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9780262561556


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   23 August 2002
Format:   Paperback
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"Previous studies of Picasso's involvement with the classical have tended to concentrate on the period immediately following the First World war, and to attribute that involvement to both the rise of political conservatism in France and the domesticating influence of the artist's marriage to Olga Koklova. Focusing instead on the later, classicizing prints of the 1930s, this book offers a radically different view of Picasso and the ""classical"" -a view that aligns his work much more closely with Surrealist, and specifically Bataillean, revisions of antiquity. 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 19th and 20th centuries - an understanding that held the work's purported autonomy to mirror the viewer's own. By exposing that autonomy as fantasy, Picasso opens the ""classical"" work and its viewer alike to the entanglements of desire and the dissolution of boundaries it inevitably brings. Much of the argument turns on close readings of key Surrealist texts by Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris and Roger Caillois. Even more important, however, are the prints' numerous references, heretofore unnoticed, to specific works by, among others, Rubens, Rembrandt and Goya. These references effectively create an alternative ""classical"" tradition out of which Picasso's etchings can be seen to have emerged."

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Author:   Lisa Florman
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780262561556


ISBN 10:   0262561557
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   23 August 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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"""Myth and Metamorphosis... gives us a deft sense of what Picasso made of Ovid."" -- Jed Perl, The New Republic"


Myth and Metamorphosis... gives us a deft sense of what Picasso made of Ovid. -- Jed Perl, The New Republic


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Lisa Florman is Assistant Professor of History of Art, The Ohio State University.

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