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Picasso: Architecture and Vertigo Hardcover - 2006

by Christopher Green


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The starting point of this exciting new exploration of Picasso is not his life but his work, which is revealed as a series of interventions in the troubled history of early twentieth-century Europe. Christopher Green shows how these interventions are remarkable for the force with which they confront issues that remain vital and important for us today: race, cultural difference, modernity, sexuality and the discontents of civilization. The framework for Green's exploration is simple, yet enormously rich in its implications: the compulsion found in Picasso's work simultaneously to build architectures and to release himself from them. Architecture is used by Green to refer not merely to pictorial or sculptural structure, but to the architecture of knowledge and society: the structures of tradition, of racial, social and cultural distinction, of logic and of technology. He not only develops new ways of seeing the oscillation between order and disorder in Picasso's work, but moves outwards from it to reveal how it confronted and challenged the architectures of orthodoxy.

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  • Title Picasso: Architecture and Vertigo
  • Author Christopher Green
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st edition.
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Date February 28, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780300104127 / 030010412X
  • Weight 2.78 lbs (1.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.4 x 7.92 x 0.99 in (26.42 x 20.12 x 2.51 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Polarity in art, Picasso, Pablo - Criticism and interpretation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005012044
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.2

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Citations

  • Choice, 07/01/2006, Page 1981
  • Library Journal, 05/01/2006, Page 85

About the author

Christopher Green is professor of history of art at the Courtauld Institute. His books include Lger and the Avant-garde (1976), Cubism and Its Enemies (1987), Juan Gris (1992), and Art in France, 1900-1940 (2000), all published by Yale University Press.

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