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Picasso's war : the year the art world came to America / Hugh Eakin.

Eakin, Hugh, (author.).

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"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 publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780451498489
  • ISBN: 0451498488
  • Physical Description: 468 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown, [2022]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-442) and index.
Subject: Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 > Appreciation > United States.
Picasso : Forty Years of His Art (Exhibition) (1939-1940 : Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.)
Artists.

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  • 9 of 9 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Livingston County. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Livingston County Library - Main Library.

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Livingston County Library - Main Library 709.2 EAKIN (Text) 2601951524 Adult Non-Fiction Available -

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Picasso's War : How Modern Art Came to America
Picasso's War : How Modern Art Came to America
by Eakin, Hugh
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Picasso's War : How Modern Art Came to America


A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world-and Picasso the most famous artist alive-in the shadow of World War II " Eakin has mastered this material. . . . The book soars."- The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR- Vanity Fair, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker In January 1939, Pablo Picasso was renowned in Europe but disdained by many in the United States. One year later, Americans across the country were clamoring to see his art. How did the controversial leader of the Paris avant-garde break through to the heart of American culture? The answer begins a generation earlier, when a renegade Irish American lawyer named John Quinn set out to build the greatest collection of Picassos in existence. His dream of a museum to house them died with him, until it was rediscovered by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., a cultural visionary who, at the age of twenty-seven, became the director of New York's new Museum of Modern Art. Barr and Quinn's shared goal would be thwarted in the years to come-by popular hostility, by the Depression, by Parisian intrigues, and by Picasso himself. It would take Hitler's campaign against Jews and modern art, and Barr's fraught alliance with Paul Rosenberg, Picasso's persecuted dealer, to get Picasso's most important paintings out of Europe. Mounted in the shadow of war, 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. Picasso's War is the never-before-told story about how a single exhibition, a decade in the making, irrevocably changed American taste, and in doing so saved dozens of the twentieth century's most enduring artworks from the Nazis. Through a deft combination of new scholarship and vivid storytelling, Hugh Eakin shows how two men and their obsession with Picasso changed the art world forever.

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