9781478000198-1478000198-Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece

Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece

ISBN-13: 9781478000198
ISBN-10: 1478000198
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Suzanne Preston Blier
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 448 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781478000198
ISBN-10: 1478000198
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Suzanne Preston Blier
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 448 pages

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Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece (ISBN-13: 9781478000198 and ISBN-10: 1478000198), written by authors Suzanne Preston Blier, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Monographs (Individual Artists, History, Arts History & Criticism, African History, Women in History, World History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Monographs books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.

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In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most important, celebrated, and studied paintings. Drawing on her expertise in African art and newly discovered sources, Blier reads the painting not as a simple bordello scene but as Picasso's interpretation of the diversity of representations of women from around the world that he encountered in photographs and sculptures. These representations are central to understanding the painting's creation and help identify the demoiselles as global figures, mothers, grandmothers, lovers, and sisters, as well as part of the colonial world Picasso inhabited. Simply put, Blier fundamentally transforms what we know about this revolutionary and iconic work.

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