| Description |
xx, 311 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Contemporary artists and their critics |
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Contemporary artists and their critics.
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| Contents |
1. Final Reflections: A Bar at the Folies-Bergere as Manet's Adieu to Art and Life -- 2. Wrestling Anew with Gauguin's Vision after the Sermon -- 3. The Archaeology of a Painting: A Visit to the City of the Dead beneath Picasso's La Vie -- 4. A Youthful Genius Confronts His Destiny: Picasso's Old Guitarist as a Prognostication of His Future -- 5. Art as Exorcism: Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon -- 6. Art as Autobiography: Picasso's Guernica -- 7. Meditations on Madness: The Art of Rene Magritte -- 8. Homesick and Heartsick: Rene Magritte's Artistic and Personal Crisis of the 1940s |
| Analysis |
Paintings Criticism |
| Notes |
The essays on Picasso (1980) are reprinted with minor revisions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903 -- Psychology.
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Magritte, René, 1898-1967 -- Psychology.
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Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883 -- Psychology.
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Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Psychology.
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Painters -- France -- Psychology.
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Painting, French -- 19th century.
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Painting, French -- 20th century.
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Painting, French.
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Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- France.
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Psychoanalysis and art -- France.
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| LC no. |
93046635 |
| ISBN |
0521434076 |
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0521435676 (paperback) |
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