Radical Picasso

The Use Value of Genius
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-520-29014-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 320 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 270 mm, Gewicht: 1012 g

Reihe: The Phillips Collection Book Prize Series

More than any other modern artist, Pablo Picasso came to represent the idea of genius. Yet the aesthetic of genius, which governed Western thinking about art between the mid-eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, has also limited how we interpret Picasso’s work. In Radical Picasso, C. F. B. Miller dispenses with the privatized clichés that have dominated the reception of modernism’s most celebrated oeuvre. Instead, Picasso’s practice emerges as an assemblage whose density and agitation, negativity and excess, cannot be contained by hero worship (or its inverse). The artworks in question are radical not least because they strike at the visual root of theory, the perceptual root of the aesthetic. Ranging across histories of art, literature, philosophy, and science, Miller critiques the Picasso myth, rethinks cubism and surrealism, and in the process transforms our understanding of European modernism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Charles F. B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Surrealismus, Abstrakter Expressionismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Kubismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. The Crystallization of Cubism
2. Platonism after Cubism
3. Mimesis after Collage
4. Cubism's Refuse
5. Picasso's Sexuality
6. Crucifixion and Apocalypse
7. Rotten Sun
8. The Demise of Genius

Notes
List of Illustrations
Index

Über Autor(innen)

C. F. B. Miller is Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the University of Manchester.