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A sum of destructions
Picasso's cultures & the creation of Cubism
By Staller, Natasha Elena
- ISBN
- 978-0-30007-242-6
- Publisher
- New Haven, Conn. ; Yale University Press, c2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 12, 2002
Staller views "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" and the creation of Cubism as a defiant summation of Picasso's reactions to and interactions with his environment, beginning with M laga, where he was born, then La Corusa, Barcelona, and eventually Paris. Drawing on 20 years of research, she investigates the backgrounds of each of these places from a social and anthropological point of view. In her attempt to discover the background that eventually created the "Demoiselles" and Cubism, she pr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
