Volume 46, Number 6 · April 8, 1999
The Fallen Angel?
By Marilyn McCully
The Picasso Papers
by Rosalind E. Krauss
MIT Press, 272 pp., $15.00 (paper)
Pablo Picasso's reputation as a dominant figure in twentieth-century art is unparalleled, fed by an extraordinarily diverse body of criticism that began in his early youth and continues unabated today. Throughout the century his work has attracted numerous champions as well as critics. When he was undisputed leader of the avant-garde, everyone wanted him on their team, from modernists, neoclassicists, and Surrealists to Communists. More recently he has been both claimed as an anarchist hero (by Patricia Leighten in Re-Ordering the Universe[1] ) and demonized by feminists and popular writers such as Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (Picasso: Creator and Destroyer[2] ), as well as in a movie, James Ivory's Surviving Picasso (1996).
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