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Picasso and Truth offers a breathtaking and original new look at the most significant artist of the modern era. From Pablo Picasso's early The Blue Room to the later Guernica, eminent art historian T.J. Clark offers a striking reassessment of the artist's paintings from the 1920s and 1930s. Why was the space of a room so basic to Picasso's worldview? And what happened to his art when he began to feel that room-space become too confined--too little exposed to the catastrophes of the twentieth century? Clark explores the role of space and the interior, and the battle between intimacy and monstrosity, in Picasso's art. Based on the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of Art, this lavishly illustrated volume remedies the biographical and idolatrous tendencies of most studies on Picasso, reasserting the structure and substance of the artist's work. With compelling insight, Clark focuses on three central works--the large-scale Guitar and Mandolin on a Table (1924), The Three Dancers (1925), and The Painter and His Model (1927)--and explores Picasso's answer to Nietzsche's belief that the age-old commitment to truth was imploding in modern European culture. Masterful in its historical contextualization, Picasso and Truth rescues Picasso from the celebrity culture that trivializes his accomplishments and returns us to the tragic vision of his art--humane and appalling, naïve and difficult, in mourning for a lost nineteenth century, yet utterly exposed to the hell of Europe between the wars.

Picasso, Pablo, --- Picasso, Pablo --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Abjection. --- Academic art. --- Aphorism. --- Banality (sculpture series). --- Bust of a Woman (Marie-Thérèse). --- Carl Einstein. --- Cimabue. --- Classicism. --- Clement Greenberg. --- Collage. --- Constantin Brâncu?i. --- Cubism. --- Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. --- De Stijl. --- Dora Maar. --- Eroticism. --- Facsimile. --- Falsity. --- Farce. --- Fernande Olivier. --- Fine art. --- Friedrich Nietzsche. --- Gerhard Richter. --- Gesso. --- Giorgio de Chirico. --- Horace Walpole. --- Horror vacui. --- Illusionism (art). --- Jackson Pollock. --- Judith Butler. --- Kitsch. --- Lawrence Gowing. --- Le Figaro. --- Lecture. --- Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. --- Ma Jolie (Picasso, 1912). --- Maenad. --- Marc Chagall. --- Marcel Duchamp. --- Mario Praz. --- Michael Fried. --- Modern art. --- Modernity. --- Mural. --- Negative space. --- Obscenity. --- Pablo Picasso. --- Peggy Guggenheim Collection. --- Philip Larkin. --- Picasso's Blue Period. --- Picture plane. --- Picturesque. --- Primitivism. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Pulcinella. --- Robert Rosenblum. --- Roger Fry. --- Roland Penrose. --- Romanticism. --- Still life. --- Surrealism. --- Swinging (sexual practice). --- The Artist at Work. --- The Charnel House. --- The Man With the Blue Guitar. --- The Painter and His Model. --- The Raft of the Medusa. --- The Three Dancers. --- Three Musicians. --- Venus Anadyomene.