Libros de Mary Ann Caws (3 libros)

Durante siete años Dora Maar mantuvo una relación tempestuosa con Picasso. En el transcurso de esos años lo fotografió ocupado en su trabajo o bien en sus ratos de asueto, en el taller o en la playa, solo o con amigos como Man Ray, André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba o Paul Eluard. En 1937 creó un documento fotográfico único al retratar el proceso de creación del Guernica, la obra con que Picasso protestó contra la masacre de la guerra civil española. Los rasgos de Dora quedaron inmortalizados, por un lado, en la mujer que lleva la lámpara en el Guernica y, por otro, en las...

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure—that of being Salvador Dalí.” He was a force unto himself, an icon of outrageousness, artistic brilliance, eccentricity, and unmistakable style. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech, Marquis of Pubol, was one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century, and in this concise narrative acclaimed art historian Mary Ann Caws provides a sharply written survey of his life and work. Salvador Dalí examines every twist and turn in Dalí’s long and multifaceted career and the pivotal artistic movements at whose ...