
In this groundbreaking new study of the leading artist of the twentieth century, Christopher Green explores Picasso's fascination with ideas about the living & the dead. He shows how, through the manipulation of pictorial signs, Picasso oscillated between the animate & the inanimate, creating objects that 'live' & figures that are as 'dead' as objects. Covering the period from the creation of the Demoiselles d' Avignon in 1907 to the artist's association with the Surrealists in the early 1930s, the book offers a journey through Picasso's imagination & reveals
- by way of Freud, Andre Breton & Guillaume Apollinaire, among others
- the ideas & reflections associated with life & death in his work.