Success and Failure of Picasso - Softcover

Berger, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140023836 ISBN 13: 9780140023831

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1965

Synopsis

The Success And Failure Of Picasso

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From the Back Cover:

At the height of his powers, Pablo Picasso was the artist as revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the values of his time. At the height of his fame, he was the artist as royalty: incalculably wealthy, universally idolized--and wholly isolated.In this stunning critical assessment, John Berger--one of this century's most insightful cultural historians--trains his penetrating gaze upon this most prodigious and enigmatic painter and on the Spanish landscape and very particular culture that shaped his life and work.

About the Author:

John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, A Painter of Our Time, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and lived in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0140023836
• ISBN 13: 9780140023831
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224