Picasso Papers

Title: Picasso Papers
Author: Rosalind E Krauss
ISBN: 9780262611428
Publisher: Mit Pr
Published: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1st MIT Press ed
Number of Pages: 272
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
R: 1697310
Section: Art | Individual Artists | General
Publisher Description: Was Picasso a modern Midas who not only turned the trash of everyday life into the gold of Cubist collage but also gave new value to the work of Old Masters? Or was he a monster counterfeiter who mercilessly raided the styles of others? In The Picasso Papers, Rosalind Krauss suggests that the reason we still ask these questions is that modernism itself is a hall of mirrors in which counterfeit and genuine both reflect the same condition. Krauss brings Picasso's pastiche of other artists brilliantly into focus as the sublimated underbelly of Cubism, refashioned in the bright, clean style of Picasso's neoclassicism--a defense that is its own form of practicing the forbidden.