Title: Francis Picabia : his art, life and times /
Authors: Camfield, William A.
Date: 1979
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Physical description: xviii, 366 p., [93] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language: English
LC class: N
Contents: Childhood and early career -- Catching up with modern art: Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Fauvism and experiments, 1903-1909 -- Search for self-expression: Fauvism, Cubism and Orphism, 1909-1912 -- New York, the Armory Show and "291" -- Culmination of the "psychological studies," Paris, 1913-1914 -- New York and the Mechanomorphic Style, 1915 -- Barcelona, New York, 391 and the stirrings of Dada -- Poetry, Switzerland, and Dada in Zurich, 1918-1919 -- The return to Paris and preparation for Dada, 1919 -- The First Dada Season in Paris -- Early dissension, the Second Dada Season and the defection of Picabia -- Picabia and the Anti-Dada Dadaist: new conflicts and projects, 1921-1922 -- A new home, new projects and renewed painting: Figurative Art and the Late Dada-Machinist Style -- Figurative Art; Surrealism; Relâche and Entr'acte -- Collages, Espagnoles and "monsters" in the Midi, 1924-1928 -- The transparencies, 1928-1932 -- Transparencies, solids and superimpositions, 1933-1940 -- "Realism" and the war years, 1939-1945 -- Picabia's return to Paris; the final synthesis.
Notes: Includes index.