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Modernism and authority : Picasso and his milieu around 1900

Palermo, Charles, 1965- author

2015

Overview

\"Modernism and Authority presents a provocative new take on the early paintings of Pablo Picasso and the writings of Guillaume Apollinaire. Charles Palermo argues that references to theology and traditional Christian iconography in the works of Picasso and Apollinaire are not mere symbolic gestures; rather, they are complex responses to the symbolist art and poetry of figures important to them, including Paul Gauguin, Charles Morice, and Santiago Rusiنnol. The young Picasso and his contemporaries experienced the challenges of modernity as an attempt to reflect on the lost relation to authority. For the symbolists, art held authority by revealing something compelling--something to which audiences must respond lest they lose claim to their own moral authority. Instead of the total transformation of the reader or viewer that symbolist creators envision, Picasso and Apollinaire imagine a divided self, responding only partially or ambivalently to the work of art's call. Navigating these problems of symbolist art and poetry entails considering the nature of the work of art and of one's response to it, the modern subject's place in history, and the relevance of historical truth to our methodological choices in the present\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 Criticism and interpretation. / Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 Friends and associates. / Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918 Criticism and interpretation. / Painting, French 19th century. / Painting, French 20th century. / Modernism (Art) France. / Symbolism France History.
• ISBN: 9780520282469, 0520282469

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
ND553.P5 P293 2015	1	BOOK	ARTS