Bibliograph

Picasso's war, how modern art came to America, Hugh Eakin

Type

Label

Picasso's war, how modern art came to America, Hugh Eakin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-442) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Picasso's war

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1280488507

Responsibility statement

Hugh Eakin

Sub title

how modern art came to America

Summary

"The untold story of the exhibition that made America the center of the art world -- and Picasso the most famous artist alive -- in the shadow of World War II"--, Provided by publisherIn January 1939, Pablo Picasso was renowned in Europe but disdained by many in the United States. Ten years before, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. became the director of New York's new Museum of Modern Art. He had discovered a collection of Picassos, built by a renegade Irish American lawyer named John Quinn before his death, and set out to mount an exhibit. It would take Hitler's campaign against Jews and modern art, and Barr's alliance with Paul Rosenberg, Picasso's persecuted dealer, to get Picasso's most important paintings out of Europe. Eakin shows how the groundbreaking exhibition Picasso: Forty Years of His Art would launch Picasso in America, define MoMA as we know it, and shift the focus of the art world from Paris to New York. -- adapted from jacket

Target audience

adult

Creator