The Kunsthaus Zürich opened in 1910, and to celebrate its 100th year, recreated an extraordinary exhibition of Picasso's works. The exhibition attracted record crowds in 1932, and was highly unusual for the time as a retrospective of a living artist's career. It was also revelatory, and remains so, as an expression of Picasso's feelings toward his own work; he was the curator. Picasso selected 229 paintings, sculptures, and prints from the first three decades of his career, including selections from his Blue and Rose periods, his Cubist period, his neoclassical paintings of the 1920s, and images inspired by Marie-Thérèse Walter in the 1930s. He arranged them with a telling disregard for chronology, because his interest lay elsewhere: he was interested in the underlying continuity in his experiments with expression. Published in conjunction with the recreated exhibition, this volume contains essays by Kunsthaus Zürich curator Bezzola and several contributors discussing Picasso's choices and the exhibition's creation and reception. The works themselves are presented in full-page plates, along with photos of the exhibition walls. A facsimile of the original exhibition catalogue (in German) is included. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Genre: Art
- Subgenre: Collections + Catalogs + Exhibitions
- Publisher: Prestel Pub
- Pages: 286
- Language: English
- Format: hardcover
- Release Date: November 30, 2010
- Date Published: November 30, 2010
- Author: Tobia Bezzola