Citadelles & Mazenod - Picasso et les Écrivains - 2013

Important quarto edition, with editorial binding and a slipcase.

Picasso has undoubtedly been, for the writers of the last century, the artist of greatest curiosity and continues to be attentively considered by contemporary authors. Among painters and sculptors, no one has managed better than him to provoke such widespread frenzy of writings within the literary community, so divided in interests and opinions. Short stories and novels, biographies and essays, articles and poems: the forms of this literary fascination have constantly evolved and diversified. Even the theater has benefited from such esteem through collaborations for ballets and theatrical works. This book proposes a new and bold challenge: to offer a comprehensive study of the artist’s relationship with the writers of his time and of ours. From Apollinaire to Bonnefoy, from Max Jacob to Michel Butor, from Rilke to Neruda, from Norman Mailer to Gertrude Stein, about fifty French and foreign authors are considered for the passion, mostly admired, they nourished for Picasso. Several factors come into play to explain the literary ferment surrounding him and his work.