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Werner Spies

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Born January 1, 1937 (89 years old)
Also known as: Werner Spies
22 books
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Pablo Picasso on the Path to Sculpture; The Paris and Dinard Sketchbooks of 1928 from the Marina Picasso collection

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The Carnet Paris and the Carnet Dinard, done in the latter half of 1928, are two of Picasso's most significant sketchbooks. Like diaries in the form of drawings, they provide a day-by-day record of often precipitous formal developments in the artist's work of the period. They also minutely document one of the most interesting transitions in his career, from the neoclassical solidity of the early 1920s to a reawakened urge to analyze, distort, and abstract real forms late in the decade.

Meret Oppenheim

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Summary: Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) ist wohl die eigenwilligste und innovativste Künstlerin, die die Schweiz je aufzuweisen hatte. Die Fotos, die Man Ray von ihr machte, und die weltbekannte "Pelztasse" haben ihren Namen in den internationalen Kunstkreisen und darüber hinaus etabliert. Zahlreiche Facetten ihres weitsichtigen Werks blieben bis heute jedoch unbekannt, so beispielsweise ihre Brunnenprojekte, die sie Ende der 1960er- bis Mitte der 1980er-Jahre auf Papier und als Modelle entwarf. Aufträge gab es hierfür keine, umso freier und eigenwilliger sind die Gestaltungen. Drei dieser Ideen sind bis heute als Brunnen umgesetzt worden: der "Meret-Oppenheim-Brunnen" in Bern, "Die Spirale (der Gang der Natur)" in Paris und der "Hermesbrunnen" im Garten von Daniel Spoerri in Seggiano, Italien. "Brunnengeschichten" vereint alle realisierten Brunnenprojekte von Meret Oppenheim, aber auch ihre unausgeführten Modelle in einer Publikation.

Picasso's world of children

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The theme of children and childhood, a highly popular subject with the great painters and sculptors of the past, has received comparatively little attention in twentieth-century art. Here, as in so many other respects, the work of Pablo Picasso stands out as a major exception. Picasso's many portraits and other depictions of children constitute one of the most immediately accessible and appealing facets of his extraordinarily varied oeuvre. This fascinating new study by Werner Spies, one of the foremost connoisseurs of Picasso's work, examines the artist's approach to the subject of the child against the background of his turbulent personal life, the development of this restlessly innovative aesthetic thinking, an the general ideas about the significance of childhood and youth that have played such a key role in shaping modern culture. Sumptuously illustrated, and packed with original and stimulating insights, the book offers an enticing introduction to Picasso's magical world of children, and to his visual universe as a whole.