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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Suzanne Preston BlierPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.839kg ISBN: 9781478000198ISBN 10: 1478000198 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 13 December 2019 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 1. Setting, Sources, Titles, and Time 19 2. The Making of a Painting 52 3. Art in the Flesh 81 4. The Sorcerer's Apprentice 111 5. L'Oiseau du Bénin 152 6. The Global Brothel 185 7. Le Bordel Philosophique 222 Conclusions. The Creative Nexus 264 Acknowledgments 297 Sketchbooks: New Dating 300 Chronology 305 List of Illustrations 312 Notes 333 References 365 Index 415ReviewsBlier offers a wide-ranging account of the genesis, sources, and context for Picasso's influential masterpiece. In both cases it is especially timely and meaningful to have women shaping the conversation. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. -- E. Baden * Choice * Blier uses a host of techniques including formal analysis, textual analysis, and broader global image culture to dig deep into this one painting. Most exciting is when she points out obvious but overlooked information in widely known documentation, including period photographs of Demoiselles in process that show how Picasso developed the composition. Ultimately, Blier offers a reading thoroughly of our time-one in which women are empowered and time and space compressed. -- Maggie Taft * Booklist * The book, which features hundreds of illustrations . . . is full of a vast and intriguing array of highways and forays into every possible connection that might suggest itself to construct this argument. As a Black feminist, I found most persuasive Blier's proposition to table the idea of Les demoiselles as a brothel scene and see it, rather, as a reference to the turn-of-the-century fascination with the portrayal of racial types. -- Michele Wallace * Artforum * Blier offers a wide-ranging account of the genesis, sources, and context for Picasso's influential masterpiece. In both cases it is especially timely and meaningful to have women shaping the conversation. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. -- E. Baden * Choice * Blier uses a host of techniques including formal analysis, textual analysis, and broader global image culture to dig deep into this one painting. Most exciting is when she points out obvious but overlooked information in widely known documentation, including period photographs of Demoiselles in process that show how Picasso developed the composition. Ultimately, Blier offers a reading thoroughly of our time-one in which women are empowered and time and space compressed. -- Maggie Taft * Booklist * Blier uses a host of techniques including formal analysis, textual analysis, and broader global image culture to dig deep into this one painting. Most exciting is when she points out obvious but overlooked information in widely known documentation, including period photographs of Demoiselles in process that show how Picasso developed the composition. Ultimately, Blier offers a reading thoroughly of our time-one in which women are empowered and time and space compressed. -- Maggie Taft * Booklist * Author InformationSuzanne Preston Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and the author and editor of numerous books, including Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity c. 1300. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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