Making Time
Picasso’s "Suite 347</I>
©2006
Monographs
XX,
270 Pages
Series:
American University Studies , Volume 35
Summary
In 1968, near the end of his life, Picasso made 347 etchings that show his interest in television and film, wrestling, and the female nude. Some of the prints refer to old Celestina, the cunning marriage arranger featured in Fernando de Rojas’s play. Others investigate the aging process, voyeurism, the orientalized setting of the harem, and explicit lovemaking as the Pope looks on. When the etchings were exhibited in Paris, and later Chicago, there was heated controversy on their status as pornography. In both cities the works were censored. Memory Holloway examines Suite 347 as a summary of the themes of Picasso’s work, set in the context of the student conflicts of May 1968 and his continuing experimentation as a printmaker.
Details
- Pages
- XX, 270
- Publication Year
- 2006
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820450469
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Les 347 Picasso, Pablo Pablo
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2006. XX, 270 pp., num. ill.
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