Picasso the iconophage.
RMN / Picasso Museum| N° d'inventaire | 30955 |
| Format | 17.5 x 22.2 |
| Détails | 448 p., numerous color photographs and illustrations, publisher's cloth binding. |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782711880546 |
Monster was the artistic production of Picasso, this ogre consumer of images who, throughout his life, never ceased to feed on a fund of fantastic and constantly multiplying images.
With an insatiable curiosity, Picasso was as interested in the classics as in his contemporaries. From his visits to studios, museums and other galleries, he drew from original and primary sources a raw material, always reprocessed by the play of memory, in the light of his own concerns and research. To this substratum, without any real hierarchy, were added secondary visual sources, those resulting from reproduction in its multiple forms, in black and white or in color: prints; posters, newspapers or various printed matter; books and periodicals; not forgetting a formidable collection of postcards.
Monster was the artistic production of Picasso, this ogre consumer of images who, throughout his life, never ceased to feed on a fund of fantastic and constantly multiplying images.
With an insatiable curiosity, Picasso was as interested in the classics as in his contemporaries. From his visits to studios, museums and other galleries, he drew from original and primary sources a raw material, always reprocessed by the play of memory, in the light of his own concerns and research. To this substratum, without any real hierarchy, were added secondary visual sources, those resulting from reproduction in its multiple forms, in black and white or in color: prints; posters, newspapers or various printed matter; books and periodicals; not forgetting a formidable collection of postcards.