Modernism and Authority: Picasso and His Milieu Around 1900

by Charles Palermo

Modernism and Authority presents a provocative new take on the early paintings of Pablo Picasso and the writings of Guillaume Apollinaire. Charles Palermo argues that references to theology and traditional Christian iconography in the works of Picasso and Apollinaire are not mere symbolic gestures; rather, they are complex responses to the symbolist art and poetry of figures important to them, including Paul Gauguin, Charles Morice, and Santiago Rusi...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520282469
• ISBN13: 9780520282469
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 10.1"