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Picasso & modern British art
- Title
- Picasso & modern British art / edited by James Beechey and Chris Stephens ; with contributions from James Beechey ... [et al.].
- Author
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.
- Publication
- London : Tate Pub., 2012.
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- Description
- 239 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 30 cm.
- Summary
- 'Picasso and Modern British Art' explores an overlooked yet important aspect of Pablo Picasso's life and work: his lifelong connection with the United Kingdom. Tracing his rise in Britain, this book demonstrates that the British engagement with Picasso and his art has been much deeper and more varied than was previously understood.
- "Accompanying a major touring exhibition, Picasso and Modern British Art is the first book to explore Pablo Picasso's lifelong connections with the United Kingdom. Picasso's enormous impact on British modernism is examined through seven artists in particular for whom he proved an important stimulus: Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland and David Hockney. Their responses to Picasso's work are wide and varied: from Francis Bacon's extraordinary Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944) that draws from Picasso's paintings of figures on the beach at Dinard, works that Bacon said first inspired him to take up painting, to David Hockney's pictorial 'homages' to Picasso after visiting the major Picasso retrospective exhibition at Tate eight times, the beginning of a life-long obsession with the artist. Such was Picasso's status that it extended beyond the artistic to the political sphere, with the tour of his anti-Fascist work Guernica at the end of the 1930s and his presence at the Sheffield Peace Conference in 1950 making headline news."--Publisher description.
- Alternative Title
- Picasso and modern British art
- Subjects
- Note
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Tate Britain, London, Feb. 15-July 15, 2012, and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Aug. 4-Nov. 4, 2012.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-219) and index.
- Contents
- Picasso and Britain / James Beechey -- The Picassos of British criticism c.1910-c.1945 / Christopher Green -- The politics of Picasso in Cold War Britain / Andrew Brighton -- Cooper's capers and their consequences for Picasso, Penrose and the Tate / John Richardson interviewed by Chris Stephens -- Picasso in Britain 1910-1914 / James Beechey -- Duncan Grant and Picasso / James Beechey -- Wyndham Lewis and Picasso / Richard Humphreys -- Picasso in Britain 1919 / James Beechey -- Ben Nicholson and Picasso / Christopher Green -- Picasso in Britain 1920-1939 / James Beechey, Patrick Elliott, Helen Little and Chris Stephens -- Henry Moore and Picasso / Christopher Green -- Francis Bacon and Picasso / Chris Stephens -- Picasso in Britain 1937-1939 / Helen Little -- Graham Sutherland and Picasso / Chris Stephens -- Picasso in Britain 1945-1960 / Helen Little -- David Hockney and Picasso / Chris Stephens -- The three dancers.
- Call Number
- JQG 12-177
- ISBN
- 9781854378903 (pbk.)
- 1854378902 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 775030377
- Author
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.
- Title
- Picasso & modern British art / edited by James Beechey and Chris Stephens ; with contributions from James Beechey ... [et al.].
- Imprint
- London : Tate Pub., 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-219) and index.
- Added Author
- Beechey, James, 1969-Stephens, Chris.Tate Britain (Gallery)Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
- Research Call Number
- JQG 12-177