Dora Maar with & Without Picasso
Author | : Mary Ann Caws |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2000 |
ISBN-10 | : 0500510091 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780500510094 |
Rating | : 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "She was to be Picasso's lover and muse for seven years. In that time she photographed him at work and play, in the studio and on the beach, alone or with friends such as Man Ray, Andre Breton, Jacqueline Lamba and Paul Eluard. In early 1957 she created a unique photographic record of the painting of Guernica, Picasso's searing protest against the carnage of the Spanish Civil War. Dora's own features were immortalized in the lamp-bearing woman in Guernica and in the harrowing distortions of the Weeping Woman, the image in which Picasso achieved his most acute expression of the public and private anguish of those years.".