Volume 32, Number 18 · November 21, 1985
Picasso & Poetry
By John Golding
Góngora
by Pablo Picasso, introduction by John Russell, poems translated by Alan S. Trueblood
Braziller, 169 pp., $50.00
Although Picasso enjoyed his excursions into the theater, and in particular his collaborations with the Diaghilev ballet, for the most part he disliked working to order and shunned commissions of all kinds. He did, nevertheless, illustrate some fifty books and was peripherally involved in the production of twice as many again, contributing frontispieces (often in the form of a portrait sketch of the author), dust jackets, vignettes, and so forth. Even in cases where his images figure prominently, most of them bear no relation to the text and were simply selected from existing material that seemed not inappropriate; such was the prestige of his name that authors and publishers were happy to settle for what was offered to them.
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