Correspondence: Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein (The French List – (Seagull titles CHUP)) - Hardcover

Pablo Picasso And Gertrude Stein

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905422911 ISBN 13: 9781905422913

Publisher: Seagull Books, 2009

Synopsis

Pablo Picasso was one of the most prodigious and revolutionary artists in the history of Western painting. Gertrude Stein was an avant-garde American writer, art collector, eccentric and self-styled genius. Her Paris home was the leading salon for artists and writers between the Wars. Picasso painted Stein's portrait and they became firm friends. Their correspondence extends across a time of extraordinary social and political change, between 1906 and 1944, effectively from the Belle Epoque to the German Occupation of the Second World War.Both wrote in French - a language neither ever entirely mastered. Written as letters, cards and scribbled notes, their intimate correspondence touches lightly on both the weighty and the everyday - holidays, money, dinner invitations, art, family, lovers, travel arrangements, how work goes, or the war. The correspondence has been carefully edited and is presented by period, with each introduced with an outline of significant personal and historical events of the time. Explanatory notes to the letters are also included.

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Review:

"A triumph of scholarship. Editor Laurence Madeline provides scrupulous annotation, drawing upon memoirs, biographies, cultural histories, and other people's letters; the book is beautifully illustrated with photograhs, manuscripts, works of art, and reproductions of postcards. . . . Although both Stein and Picasso have been written about extensively, this volume is fresh, rich, and engrossing."--Linda Simon "Georgia Review "

About the Author:

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is the colossus of 20th Century art, legendary for his gargantuan capacities for both consuming life and producing art. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an art critic, one of the first collectors of Cubism, and author of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Translated from the French by Lorna Scott Fox

About this edition

• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1905422911
• ISBN 13: 9781905422913
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320