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Through works of art, photographs, and writings, this volume explores Picasso's fascination with tribal art and the influences he repeatedly drew upon for his own oeuvre. African art? I don't know it. With this provocative tone, Picasso tried to deny his relationship with art from outside of (...)

This comprehensive volume examines the little-known relationship both artistic and personal between two of the greatest avant-garde artists of the twentieth century.Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti, each in their own way, deeply disrupted existing artistic codes and pushed the barriers of (...)

Édouard Vuillard was so secretive that he berated himself for betraying his emotions in conversation. He was a reticent, impassioned man, a timid stalker and a social climbing anarchist, caught in conflicting desires. From the 1880s until the advent of World War II, using styles from academic to (...)

An overview of Chinese culture, particularly visions of life and the afterlife, told through feast imagery from three historically transformative dynastiesFeasting was an important social and ritual activity in China beginning in the Bronze Age, and cuisine retains a strong cultural significance to (...)