
Picasso & Lump: A Dachshund’s Odyssey
One spring morning in 1957, veteran photojournalist David Douglas Duncan paid a visit to his friend and frequent photographic subject Pablo Picasso, at the artists villa near Cannes. Traveling with Duncan was his pet dachshund, Lump. The photographers nomadic lifestyle and his other doga giant Afghan houndhad never suited the jealous and temperamental Lump. So when they arrived at Picassos Villa La Californie that spring day, Lump decided that he had found his paradise on earth, and that he would take up permanent residence with Picasso. Lump was soon immortalized in a Picasso portrait painted on a plate, but this was just the beginning. In a suite of 45 paintings reinterpreting Velsquezs masterpiece Las Meninas, Picasso replaced the impressive hound in the foreground with jaunty renderings of Lump. Fifteen of the paintings are reproduced here, bringing full circle the odyssey of a fortunate dachshund who found his way from reluctant road warrior to furry and elongated icon of modern art.
Customer Review: Beautiful book!
I ordered this for a friend, who has dachshunds and is an artist. Before I wrapped the book, though, I looked through it. It tells a visual story of their special relationship, which is clear in the pictures. I was captivated by the sentiment of the book and looked forward to hearing her response to the book. I recommend this to anyone who loves dogs. Very special!
Customer Review: good pics and little tid bits of info
I really like the pictures and the little tid bits of information about Picasso, Lump and their family
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Testament D’Orphee [1960]
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Customer Review: Cocteau - Le Fin
It is very hard for me to say a great deal about this movie. I am not a film buff, and as a result anything I do say will necessarily be a.impressionistic and b. highly subjective. All I can say is that this film moved me immensely, and that is why I am trying to set down a few words about it. Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) is a man whose life was so diverse it almost defies delineation. Poet, novelist, dramatist, visual artist and even a boxing promoter, he tried his hand at everything with an astonishing degree of success - perhaps in an attempt to justify his own brash evaluation of himself as “an internationally renowned genius” in the face of charges of superficiality from the Surrealist movement, with which he was once associated and which effectively rejected his art as the work of a dilettante. In my view, this was a judgement seriously flawed by a narrowing of artistic definitions born of the essential small-mindedness of many of the Surrealists, but this is neither the time or the place for this kind of discussion. Le Testament D’Orphee - The Testament of Orpheus is Jean Cocteau’s last film - and making it he knew it would be. In many ways it is the successor of the earlier movie Orphee (Orpheus) - we are treated to a clip from that film at the start - but in other ways it stands alone as an artist’s final take on his work and life. Cocteau stars as himself in the piece, and finds himself brought to book by his characters Death, Heurtebise and the poet Cegeste (all in Orpheus) but the trial sequences, sandwiched between episodes of time travel and exercises in relativity effectively serve as Cocteau’s chance to voice his poetic philosophy. Cocteau’s performance throughout is electrifying in its honesty, and on occasions has the potential to arouse great emotion. In watching, it is necessary for the viewer to suspend his ideas of reality, but this is relative. Le Testament D’Orphee is a glimpse into the mind and heart of a true poet, a modern-day Orpheus, and this review cannot do it justice. Watch the film for yourself and see what magic Monsieur Cocteau weaves for us.
A Life of Picasso: 1907-17: Painter of Modern Life v. 2
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Major League Baseball - Asking him to slow the pace would be like asking Picasso to paint only in black and white. Something would be missing. “It’s hard to make a guy like that take it easy,” said Jose Valentin, the former Mets second baseman who’s back in camp as a non
Lord Crumwell’s Oddfellows Geniuses Mini Figures Think you’re that smart to pass on this great set of the greatest intellectuals known in history? Look smart and fun at the same time with this set of Genius Collection 5-Pack Mini Figures. This 5-pack set includes the following figures: 1x Picasso, 1x Shakespeare, 1x Einstein, 1x Freud, and 1x Beethoven (Subject to change). Nearly twenty years ago, Lord Crumwell vanished from the face of the Earth. Soon after, his estate was mysteriously burnt to the ground. Thus began one of the great mysteries of our time. The fire revealed a secret chamber beneath the East Wing of Crumwell Manor. Found therein, were dozens of hand-written volumes entitled, ‘On The True Nature of History’. The shelves were lined with hundreds of tiny figurines. Above them was a plaque that read: ‘Oddfellows’.
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