Through the eyes of Picasso - Yves Le Fur

" Art ngre ? I don't know it." With this provocative
tone,
Picasso
tried
to
deny
his
relationship
with
art
from
outside
of
Europe.
However,
through
hundreds
of
archival
documents
and
photographs,
this
volume
illustrates
how
non-European
art
from
Africa,
Oceania,
the
Americas,
and
Asia
was
a
recurring
source
of
inspiration for the artist.
Side-by-side
comparisons
illustrate
the
links
between Picasso's oeuvre and diverse "primitive"
arts. In both, we find the same themes-nudity,
sexuality, impulses, death, and more-along with
parallel
artistic
expressions
of
those
themes- such as disfiguration or destruction of the body.
The volume is completed with a chronology of
the relevant works and photographs of the artist
in his studio.