Picasso: The Challenge of Ceramics - Softcover

Edited By Harald Theil; Edited By Salvador Haro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8836644872 ISBN 13: 9788836644872

Publisher: Silvana Editoriale, 2019

Synopsis

• Presents 50 unique ceramic works from the collections of the Musée Picasso in Paris
• Accompanies an exhibition at MIC, Faenza from 1st November 2019 to 12th April 2020
• Text in English and Italian

This book explores the great interest that Pablo Picasso had in ceramics, which he certainly didn't consider a minor art, but a means of artistic expression in its own right, like sculpture, painting and graphics. In Vallauris, at the Madoura ceramic laboratories, Picasso dedicated himself to working clay for a period of 25 years, from 1946 to 1971, producing thousands of unique pieces.

This volume retraces this exceptional chapter of the Picasso's art, through 50 ceramics from the Picasso of the Musée National Picasso in Paris - a core of inestimable value, which represents almost half of the museum's large collection - placed in a fertile and unprecedented dialogue with the direct sources of his inspiration: classic ceramics with red and black figures, the Etruscan buccheri, Spanish and Italian popular ceramics, 15th century Italian graffiti, and examples of the Mediterranean area with iconographies of fish, fantastic animals, owls and birds, as well as terracottas from Mesoamerican cultures. A chapter is dedicated to the relationship between Picasso and Faenza through unpublished documents from the historical archive of the MIC, and to the historical video by Luciano Emmer of 1954 (Picasso a Vallauris).

Text in English and Italian.

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This book explores the great interest that Pablo Picasso had towards ceramics, which he certainly didn’t consider a minor art, but a means of artistic expression in its own right, like sculpture, painting and graphics. In Vallauris, at the Madoura ceramic laboratories, Picasso dedicated himself to working clay for a period of twenty-five years, from 1946 to 1971, producing thousands of unique pieces. The volume retraces this exceptional chapter of the Master’s art, through fifty ceramics from the Picasso of the Musée National Picasso in Paris - a core of inestimable value, which represents almost half of the museum’s large collection - placed in a fertile and unprecedented dialogue with the direct sources of his inspiration: classic ceramics with red and black figures, the Etruscan buccheri, Spanish and Italian popular ceramics, fifteenth-century Italian graffiti, and examples of the Mediterranean area with iconographies of fish, fantastic animals, owls and birds, as well as terracottas from Mesoamerican cultures. A chapter is dedicated to the relationship between Picasso and Faenza through unpublished documents from the historical archive of the MIC, and to the historical video by Luciano Emmer of 1954 (Picasso a Vallauris).

Edition details

• Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8836644872
• ISBN 13: 9788836644872
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Harald Theil, Salvador Haro