| Description |
xviii, 366 pages, 93 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Childhood and early career -- Catching up with modern art: Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Fauvism and experiments, 1903-1909 -- Search for self-expression: Fauvism, Cubism and Orphism, 1909-1912 -- New York, the Armory Show and "291" -- Culmination of the "psychological studies," Paris, 1913-1914 -- New York and the Mechanomorphic Style, 1915 -- Barcelona, New York, 391 and the stirrings of Dada -- Poetry, Switzerland, and Dada in Zurich, 1918-1919 -- The return to Paris and preparation for Dada, 1919 -- The First Dada Season in Paris -- Early dissension, the Second Dada Season and the defection of Picabia -- Picabia and the Anti-Dada Dadaist: new conflicts and projects, 1921-1922 -- A new home, new projects and renewed painting: Figurative Art and the Late Dada-Machinist Style -- Figurative Art; Surrealism; Relâche and Entr'acte -- Collages, Espagnoles and "monsters" in the Midi, 1924-1928 -- The transparencies, 1928-1932 -- Transparencies, solids and superimpositions, 1933-1940 -- "Realism" and the war years, 1939-1945 -- Picabia's return to Paris; the final synthesis |
| Analysis |
French paintings Picabia, Francis Critical studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 299-347 |
| Subject |
Picabia, Francis, 1879-1953.
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Painters -- France -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Picabia, Francis, 1879-1953.
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| LC no. |
77085533 |
| ISBN |
0691039321 |
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