Conversations with Picasso - Softcover

Brassai

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226071499 ISBN 13: 9780226071497

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2003

Synopsis

Conversations with Picasso offers a remarkable vision of both Picasso and the entire artistic and intellectual milieu of wartime Paris, a vision provided by the gifted photographer and prolific author who spent the early portion of the 1940s photographing Picasso's work. Brassai carefully and affectionately records each of his meetings and appointments with the great artist, building along the way a work of remarkable depth, intimate perspective, and great importance to anyone who truly wishes to understand Picasso and his world.

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Review:

"An astonishing document.... Brassai pitches his static, finished portraits of the master and friends into circumstantial, colloquial settings, a method that plunges the reader into the straitened, but vibrant, milieu of Picasso in Paris under Nazi Occupation....Brassai broke through the barrier between documentary and art." - James Malpas, Art Newspaper "Memorable and charming.... Brassai knew Picasso would be part of history, and he captures a slice of that history, intelligently and poetically, as it is being made." - San Diego Union-Tribune "Read this book if you want to understand me." - Pablo Picasso

About the Author:

Brassai (born Gyula Halasz, 1899-1984) was a photographer, journalist, and author of photographic monographs and literary works, including Brassai: Letters to My Parents and Proust in the Power of Photography, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Jane Marie Todd is a translator whose books include Largesse by Jean Starobinski and Women's Words by Mona Ozouf, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0226071499
• ISBN 13: 9780226071497
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392