Citadelles & Mazenod - Picasso et les Écrivains - 2013

Important quarto edition, with publisher's binding and a slipcase.

Picasso was undoubtedly, for the writers of the last century, the artist of greatest curiosity and continues to be regarded with interest 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 its interests and opinions. Short stories and novels, biographies and essays, articles and poems: the forms of this literary fascination have continually evolved and diversified. Even 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 our time. 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, most often admired, that nourished for Picasso. Several factors come into play to explain the literary ferment surrounding him and his work.