
Radical Picasso
The Use Value of Genius
Charles F. B. Miller(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 11. January 2022
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-520-29014-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 cliches 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.
Reviews / Votes
"Consistently new and original, Miller's perceptions and analysis enhance appreciation of exemplary works by Picasso, which are revealed as witty, audacious and brilliantly combative." * TLS *More details
Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
42 color illustrations, 30 b-w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 270 mm
Width: 187 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
1012 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-29014-3 (9780520290143)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
C. F. B. Miller is Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the University of Manchester.
Content
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
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