Picasso: The Objects (Memoire)

Quinn, Edward

ISBN 10: 2843234255 / ISBN 13: 9782843234255

Editore: Assouline Publishing, 2003

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HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

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• Titolo: Picasso: The Objects (Memoire)
• Editore: Assouline Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 2843234255
• ISBN 13: 9782843234255
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

"The most everyday object is a vessel; a vehicle of my thoughts." In Picasso's hands, cardboard, paper, and rope metamorphose into a guitar, a goat, a woman. His friend, the great photographer Edward Quinn, a privileged witness to Picasso's creative moments, recreates them here in 80 pages of everyday objects created in an imaginary world.

Informazioni sull?autore

Edward Quinn (1920-1997) was born in Ireland. He lived and worked as a photographer from the 1950s, on the Cote d'Azur, during the "golden fifties" the playground of the celebrities from the world of show biz, art and business. The rich and the famous came to the French Riviera to relax. But the movie stars knew how much their off-screen image counted ; Quinn was at the right place at the right time, making spontaneous images which caught their charm, sophistication and chic. Amongst celebrities captured on film by Quinn were Grace Kelly, Brigitte Bardot, Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Aristotle Onassis, Maria Callas, Winston Churchill, and Somerset Maugham. In 1951 Edward Quinn met and photographed Pablo Picasso for the first time. Their friendship lasted until Picasso's death in 1973. This encounter with Picasso was to be greatly influential to Quinn himself and to his subsequent work. Quinn is the author of several books and films about Picasso. From the 1960s Quinn concentrated his work on artists, amongst them Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali, Graham Sutherland, David Hockney. In the late 1980s an intense relationship, similar to his friendship with Picasso, linked Quinn to Georg Baselitz. From 1992 until his death in 1997, Edward Quinn lived near Zurich with his Swiss wife Gret, who now manages the extensive photo archive.