
Portrait of Picasso As a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography
Customer Review: I didn’t regret!
It’s a very good book on Picasso. You get to know the time he lived in, the artists he knew, the facts that pulled his work in this or that direction. It’s not a biography of his live but a biography of his work, that was obviously influenced by facts of his live. You get the know the pulsions that made him start a new phase and see his work progress - you see him strugle to get where he always wanted to, through his art. Mailer’s inteligence and sensitiveness is at his top. Makes you learn about life, art and Picasso. His special care for Fernande, one of Picasso’s lovers, is charming. She knew Picasso well… and there are several extracts from her personal diary, which are nice literature and acurate descriptions. One book to read over and over again…
Customer Review: Once upon a time, and a very good time it was..apparently…
My significant introduction to Picasso was through the work of Joseph Campbell. J.C. praised P. highly, perceiving strongly delineated mythological themes throughout P.’s work.
This book will not provide any exposition of these themes for you…
Mailer starts off in grand style by relating that P. was stillborn, and it was his deliverybed-side uncle who animated the infant by a puff of cigar smoke blown directly into the boy’s face. Perhaps this acrid first breath accounts for the child’s subsequent exceptional view of the world, Mailer suggests…
Mailer’s writing is very crisp and clean. P.’s personal details are juxtaposed throughout with contemporaneous artistic influences & developments, which helps to acquire a sense of the personality behind the visions…
Also, there are numerous colour plates (blue period and cubism), and raunchy cartoons (woman has sex with squid, par example). These substantially assist a rather lyrical, if well-organized and insightful, presentation which does tend to hover dangerously close to the banal, despite these virtues.
Particularly enjoyable for the modest wealth of photographs, perceptive descriptions of Picasso’s cronies and their views on his work, (including Gertrude Stein - “the high priestess of high colonic”, a la Mailer), and blow-by-blow acounts of the hard times suffered and (numerous) racy personal details, but very likely not a book one will pick up again and again…
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OddFellows Mini Figures Pablo Picasso
:: Figures based on various famous icons through out history
:: Designed and craeted by Jailbreak Toys
:: Features removable blaster/jet pack accessory
:: Each figure stands at 3″ tall
:: Comes in window display box
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