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"I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso," declared Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in an apt survey of a triumphant career. He had good grounds for the confidence palpable in his statement, for in the history of 20th century art, his name stands out over all the others. In Picasso's paintings, drawings, lithographs, ceramics, and sculptures, he was tirelessly inventive and innovative, exhibiting an aesthetic bravado that kept him one step ahead of his contemporaries. From subject matter to new forms and techniques to new media, Picasso got there first. The Spanish artist's enormous output, from the eight-year-old's beginnings to the late work of a man of ninety-one, is surely one of the most diverse and creatively energetic in the whole history of art, and it is no exaggeration to see him as the genius of the century. Carsten-Peter Warncke's study is a thorough review of Picasso's entire oeuvre, from the early Blue and Rose Periods, through the analytic and synthetic cubism and classicist phase all the way up to the art of the old savage Picasso.

Carsten-Peter Warncke studied art history, classical archaeology, and literature in Vienna, Heidelberg, and Hamburg, and received his doctorate from the latter in 1975. He is professor of art history at the University of Göttingen.

Editor'sPreface
1 TheImageoftheArtist
2 TheMakingofaGeniusI89O-I898
3 TheArtofYouthr898-I9OI
4 TheBluePeriodI9OI-I9o4
5 TheRosePeriodI9O4-I9O6
6 IntheLaboratoryofArti9o6/o7
7 AnalyticalCubismi9o7-1912
8 SyntheticCubism1912-1915
9 TheCameraandtheClassicist1916-1924
10 AJugglerwithForm1925-1936
11 War,Artand"Guernica"1937
12 ThePicassoStyle1937-I943
13 PoliticsandArt1943-1953
14 ThePresenceofthePast1954-1963
15 TheCaseof"LasMeninas"1957
I6 TheOldSavage1963-1973
17 TheLegendoftheArtist
Appendices(byIngoEWalther)
PabloPicasso1881-1973AChronology
Notes
Bibliography
AcknowledgementsandPictureCredits
Indexofnames