Through the eyes of Picasso
Subtitle: face to face with African and Oceanic art
By: editorial direction by Yves Le Fur
Contributors: Musée du quai Branly; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Musée Picasso (Paris, France); Flammarion (Firm)
Edition: English-language edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9782080203199; 9782357441057; 9782891924092; 9780997044683
Subjects: Folk art; Influence; Illustrated books; Primitive Art; Art collections; Indigenous art; Pictorial works; Exhibitions
Other titles: Picasso Primitif. English.
Description: "Picasso once famously - and provocatively  - declared that he was not acquainted with African art. yet hundreds of archival documents and photographs - in addition to reproductions of his artworks alongside so-called "primitive" works from Africa and Oceania, as well as the Americas and Asia - illustrate how such art was a continual source of inspiration for the master artist throughout his career. Divided into three parts, this comprehensive tome explores Picasso's fascination with art from outside of Europe. A chronology - spanning from his arrival in Paris in 1900 to 1974, the year following his death - highlights the principal points of intersection between the artist and "primitive" art: where he encountered it, which pieces he collected, and the resonances found in his own creations. Each date is elucidated through facts, testimonial accounts, and photographs, as well as comments from Picasso himself. The second part examines the thematic links between Picasso's oeuvre and diverse non-European works, providing side-by-side comparisons that reveal recurrent themes - nudity, sexuality, impulses, death, and more - along with parallel artistic expressions of those themes, such as the disfiguration or destruction of the body. Essays by three authoritative authors complete the exploration, providing context and valuable insight into the influence of these works on Picasso and the lasting and meaningful bond he had with them."
Notes: Originally published in French as Picasso Primitif.

"Copublished by the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac and Éditions Flammarion"--Colophon.

This work was published on the occasion of the exhibition Picasso Primitif / Through the Eyes of Picasso, held at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques, Paris, March 28 - July 23, 2017; at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 20, 2017-April 8, 2018; and at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, May 12-September 16, 2018.

"A number of institutions and private individuals have made this exhibition possible, first and foremost the Musée National Picasso-Paris, without whose generosity and assistance Yves Le Fur's ambitious project would never have come to fruition. The Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte (FABA) and the Picasso Administration have also made major contributions to the exhibition. They all deserve our warmest thanks, as do the teams of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Their skill and tireless efforts have made it possible to adapt the exhibition Picasso Primitif, giving it new life on the North American continent as Through the Eyes of Picasso"--Page 7.

Includes bibliographical references (page 335).

"Picasso Primitif / Through the Eyes of Picasso" : March 28-July 23, 2017, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France.

"Picasso Primitif / Through the Eyes of Picasso" : October 20, 2017-April 8, 2018, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

"Picasso Primitif / Through the Eyes of Picasso" : May 12-September 16, 2018, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Text in English, translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: I. Picasso and the "primitive" arts. 1900-1974 chronology; title: II. Body to body. Archaisms; title: Metamorphoses; title: The ID; title: III. The essays. Nothing but the primitive / Yves Le Fur; title: Beneath the painting / Gérard Wajcman; title: Louise's ass / Stéphane Breton; title: Selected bibliography; title: List of works exhibited.