Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America - Paperback

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Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America - Paperback

Name: Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America - Paperback
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SKU: 9780451498496
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by Hugh Eakin

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Book Overview

A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world--and Picasso the most famous artist alive--in the shadow of World War II

"[Eakin] has mastered this material. . . . The book soars."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

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In January 1939, Pablo Picasso was renowned in Europe but disdained by many in the United States. One year later, Americans across the country were clamoring to see his art. How did the controversial leader of the Paris avant-garde break through to the heart of American culture?

The answer begins a generation earlier, when a renegade Irish American lawyer named John Quinn set out to build the greatest collection of Picassos in existence. His dream of a museum to house them died with him, until it was rediscovered by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., a cultural visionary who, at the age of twenty-seven, became the director of New York's new Museum of Modern Art.

Barr and Quinn's shared goal would be thwarted in the years to come--by popular hostility, by the Depression, by Parisian intrigues, and by Picasso himself. It would take Hitler's campaign against Jews and modern art, and Barr's fraught alliance with Paul Rosenberg, Picasso's persecuted dealer, to get Picasso's most important paintings out of Europe. Mounted in the shadow of war, the groundbreaking exhibition Picasso: Forty Years of His Art would launch Picasso in America, define MoMA as we know it, and shift the focus of the art world from Paris to New York.

Picasso's War is the never-before-told story about how a single exhibition, a decade in the making, irrevocably changed American taste, and in doing so saved dozens of the twentieth century's most enduring artworks from the Nazis. Through a deft combination of new scholarship and vivid storytelling, Hugh Eakin shows how two men and their obsession with Picasso changed the art world forever.

ISBN	9780451498496
Author	Hugh Eakin
Publisher	Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Genre	Biography, History, and Arts
Format	Paperback
Published	September 2023
Language	ENG- English
Pages	480
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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