"I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso," declared Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in an apt survey of a triumphant career. He had good grounds for the confidence palpable in his statement, for in the history of 20th century art, his name stands out over all the others. In Picasso's paintings, drawings, lithographs, ceramics, and sculptures, he was tirelessly inventive and innovative, exhibiting an aesthetic bravado that kept him one step ahead of his contemporaries. From subject matter to new forms and techniques to new media, "Picasso" got there first. The Spanish artist's enormous output, from the eight-year-old's beginnings to the late work of a man of ninety-one, is surely one of the most diverse and creatively energetic in the whole history of art, and it is no exaggeration to see him as the genius of the century. Carsten-Peter Warncke's study is a thorough review of Picasso's entire oeuvre, from the early "Blue and Rose Periods", through the analytic and synthetic cubism and classicist phase all the way up to the art of the old savage Picasso.
Our study of Picasso, the most exhaustive record of his work to date, contains almost 1500 illustrations - from his earliest drawings to the master's very last painting. It includes extensive bibliography section as well as illustrated section about Picasso's life and work, and Index of Names.
- ISBN10 3822838144
- ISBN13 9783822838143
- Publish Date 23 March 2007 (first published September 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 April 2011
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Taschen GmbH
- Edition Taschen 25th anniversary ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 740
- Language English