Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views

New York: Da Capo Press, 1988. xxvii, 187 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: Introduction by Dore Ashton I; Art and Eroticism; Art and Intellect; Art and Nature; Art and Truth; Understanding Art II. A Picture Not Settled Beforehand; Intentions; Subjects in Painting; The Picture as a Sum of Destructions; First Vision Intact III. A Painter Paints to Unload Himself; The Artists Personality; The Necessity of Work; Imitation and Imitators; Respect for Painters; Young Artists IV. Cubism; Figurative, Nonfigurative, Abstract; Modern Art; Painting as Research V. Beauty; Freedom; Genius; Love; Perfectionism; Poverty; Reality; Solitude; Success VI. Color; Surprise and Accident in Art; Composition; Mural Painting; Style; Titles and Dating; Technique VII. The Nude; Drawing; Landscape Painting; Photography; Portraits; Religious Art; Sculpture VIII. Against Museums; Against Theories and Art Criticism; Art as Legend; Culture; Importance of Place; Poetry; Writing and Painting IX. Picasso Explains (Interview with Jerome Seckler); Picasso s Statements of July 1937; Message to Artists Congress; Open Letter to a Young Spanish Artist, May 1952; Politics X. Les Demoiselles dAvignon, 1907; The Architects Table, 1912; Guernica, 1937; Still Life with a Bull s Head, 1938; Bulls Head (Tete de Taureau), 1943; War and Peace, 1952; Minotaur XI.; Bonnard; Cezanne; Gris; Matisse; Rousseau; Artists of the Past.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.