Cahiers d'art

A fresh, multidisciplinary guide to Picasso's staggering engagement with the human form across painting, sculpture, drawing, engraving and ceramics Published with Louvre Abu Dhabi. Amply illustrated, this volume traces Pablo Picasso's (1881–1973) evolving approach to figuration throughout the many stages of his work?from the elongated, hieratic renderings of the Blue and Rose Periods, to the dynamic deconstructions of Cubism, to the colossal fleshy bodies of the 1920s, to the hybrid beings of the Surrealist period and beyond. Yoking masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, the Louvre Abu Dhabi and other institutions, Picasso: The Figure adopts a fresh thematic structure to its subject matter. Its five mythologically inspired sections?"Orion," "Pygmalion," "Minotaur," "Deucalion & Pyrrha" and "The Picasso Canon"?chronologically trace Picasso's figurative innovations across mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, engraving and ceramics. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume features essays not only by leading Picasso scholars but also by historians of the body, anthropologists and prehistorians. Together, the essays dissect the artist's rigorous dialogue with the visual languages of mythology and antiquity from which his modernist representations of the human form emerged.

Some of today's finest artists--from Etel Adnan to Glenn Ligon--pay tribute to the Spanish master's lasting influence On the occasion of the Goya exhibition organized by the Fondation Beyeler in collaboration with the Museo Nacional del Prado, Cahiers d'Art, under the direction of Staffan Ahrenberg, Sam Keller, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Isabela Mora, presents an issue composed of contributions by leading artists. These artists have been invited to pay tribute to the great Spanish master through a series of previously unpublished contributions reflecting on the ongoing influence of Goya's work in modern and contemporary art, and its resonance with our times. Ever Goya features 26 contemporary artists with an extraordinary variety of contributions, from drawings to poems, photographs and entire series. It also includes a comprehensive essay on Goya's significance by Manuela B. Mena Marqués and texts by Donatien Grau, Manthia Diawara and Terri Geis. The cover features a film still from Philippe Parreno's new film, shot at night inside the Prado in the closest possible proximity to the "Black Paintings."

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