This biography of Picasso - by a close friend and neighbour - explores the great artist's life, appreciating the distinctly Mediterranean origins of his character and art. The man that emerges from the pages is full of contradictions - mean, yet generous and affectionate, but cold.

Cubism initiated a pictorial revolution through its radical approach to image-making, invention of the new media of collage and sculptural assemblage, and evolution towards pure abstraction. This work aims to reveal these innovations as integrally related to rapid changes in French society.

A definitive collection of critical essays from the world's leading authorities on Picasso and Cubism, published to accompany a major exhibition celebrating the centenary of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

The young painter Francoise Gilot met Picasso in a Parisian cafe when he was 62. During the next ten years they were lovers, worked together and had two children, Claude and Paloma. In an account filled with intimate revelations, the author paints a portrait of her turbulent life with Picasso.

Provides information on the fundamental role that Picasso played in the development of modern American art, both through his friendships with individual artists and through the dissemination of his evolving work. This book also documents the accessibility of Picasso's work in the United States between 1911 and 1957 in exhibitions and collections.

In this text, Andre Malraux recollects a number of his conversations with Picasso. Malraux was intimately involved in French intellectual life, as philosopher, novelist, soldier, statesman and Secretary for Cultural Affairs, and he knew the painter well.

One of a series introducing major movements in modern art to general readers, students and gallery visitors, this text looks at Cubism, perhaps the seminal movement for the arts of the 20th century, and certainly one of the most complex.

An introduction to cubism, the movement often seen as the single most important development in the history of 20th-century art. The book traces the evolution of the style in the work of Braque and Picasso, as well as Gris, Leger, Delaunay, Derain, Gleizes, Metzinger and many others.

Each book in Taschen's Basic Art movement and genre series includes a detailed introduction with approximately 30 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events that took place during the time period.

Hommage a Bleriot. Robert Delaunay 1885-1941 was one of the first modern artists to take the final step into abstraction, directed by the pure power of colour and by the ideas coming from theories of perception. The colour lyricism of his works increased from 1912 to 1914 to create colourist fireworks. Delaunays oeuvre also deals with the fascination, typical of the time, for the accelerated ...

Cubism originated in Paris between 1906 and 1914, and became an international force with a profound impact on human visual experience. This book, fully illustrated with over 300 photographs, presents an evocation of Cubism as a historic and aesthetic force.

Cubism was the single most influential artistic movement of this century. It spread rapidly throughout Europe and the USA and had a lasting impact. This survey provides an introduction to the movement, its artists and their work.

A veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico's most important artist - along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo - Diego Rivera (1886-1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. This book features Rivera's mural oeuvre, including numerous large-scale details of the murals, and examines their various components and subtleties.

A catalogue that accompanies an important exhibition organized by the Meadows Museum entitled Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits 1913 - 1917 that takes place from 21st June to 20th September, 2009. It focuses on the study of the formative stage of Rivera's career during the second decade of the 20th century.

Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism was the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. Heavily influenced by the stark power of African and Native American art and sculpture, it deconstructed conventions of viewpoint and perspective, revolutionizing painting and western art in general.