Résumé:
Informationen zum Autor William H. Robinson! curator of modern European art at Cleveland Museum of Art! has published extensively on subjects concerned with European and American art of the 19th and 20th centuries! including most recently Van Gogh Repetitions (2013); Against the Grain: Modernism in the Midwest (2010) and Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso! Gaudi! Miro! Dali (2006). Klappentext Offers a highly focused examination of La Vie, accompanied by a more expansive reading of its meaning. Zusammenfassung 'Picasso and the Mysteries of Life' uses new scientific studies of 'La Vie' to examine the artist's working method and the painting's enigmatic subject. Author William H. Robinson reconstructs the relationship between the painting's complex symbolism and the process of its creation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgments and Credits; Introduction: Deconstructing La Vie; Provenance! A Cautionary Tale; An Invitation; Last Moments; The Artist's Studio; Saint-Lazare; Casagemas: Suicide and the Artist as Christ-Martyr; Lovers! Models! and Fatal Women; Robed Woman; Mirror of Despair; Birdman; Death and Resurrection; Issues and Interpretations; Notes; Select Bibliography; Photo Credits.