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 idolizedminus;and wholly isolated. In this stunning critical assessment; John Bergerminus;one of this centurys most insightful cultural historiansminus;trains his penetrating gaze upon this most prodigious and enigmatic painter and on the Spanish landscape and very particular culture that shpaed his life and work. Writing with a novelists sensuous evocation of character and detail; and drawing on an erudition that embraces history; politics; and art; Berger follows Picasso from his childhood in Malaga to the Blue Period and Cubism; from the creation of Guernica to the pained etchings of his final years. He gives us the full measure of Picassos triumphs and an unsparing reckoning of their costminus;in exile; in loneliness; and in a desolation that drove him; in his last works; into an old mans furious and desperate frenzy at the beauty of what he could no longer create.
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