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The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso
Jane Daggett Dillenberger
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Description for The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso
Hardback. Presents an examination of Pablo Picasso's use of religious imagery and the religious import of many of his works with secular subject matter. Num Pages: 128 pages, 37 color illustrations, 29 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB; AGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 189 x 15. Weight in Grams: 554.
This is the first critical examination of Pablo Picasso's use of religious imagery and the religious import of many of his works with secular subject matter. Though Picasso was an avowed atheist, his work employs spiritual themes--and, often, traditional religious iconography. In five engagingly written, accessible chapters, Jane Daggett Dillenberger and John Handley address Picasso's cryptic 1930 painting of the Crucifixion; the artist's early life in the Catholic church; elements of transcendence in Guernica; Picasso's later, fraught relationship with the church, which commissioned him in the 1950s to paint murals for the Temple of Peace chapel in France; and the ... Read more
This is the first critical examination of Pablo Picasso's use of religious imagery and the religious import of many of his works with secular subject matter. Though Picasso was an avowed atheist, his work employs spiritual themes--and, often, traditional religious iconography. In five engagingly written, accessible chapters, Jane Daggett Dillenberger and John Handley address Picasso's cryptic 1930 painting of the Crucifixion; the artist's early life in the Catholic church; elements of transcendence in Guernica; Picasso's later, fraught relationship with the church, which commissioned him in the 1950s to paint murals for the Temple of Peace chapel in France; and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
124
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
553g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520276291
SKU
V9780520276291
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About Jane Daggett Dillenberger
Jane Dillenberger is professor emerita of art and religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She studied at the University of Chicago and is author of The Religious Art of Andy Warhol (1998), Style and Content in Christian Art (2004), and Secular Art with Sacred Themes (1969). She curated several exhibitions for the Berkeley Art Museum during the ... Read more
Reviews for The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso
[Dillenberger] provides a fresh outlook that connects [Picasso] to the spiritual upbringing in his childhood and the classical past world of art. Library Journal ... a powerful study... Dillenberger argues powerfully that Picasso, too, was in his best works searching to express the presence of transcendence in the here and now, seeking 'some other realm of feeling and ... Read more