Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781478000051)

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.

Author: Suzanne Preston Blier
ISBN-10: 1478000058
ISBN-13: 9781478000051
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2019
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 7.30w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2020