When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre ... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills-- artificial and real-- and in the cafes and cabarets of Montmartre during the first decade of the century. The cross-fertilization...

Traces the life and work of the great French painter.

"This bilingual book describes the numerous elements that have shaped the modernist art of Latin America. Beginning with the pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean Islands, the values and symbols of these early civilizations have remained a constant in much of modernist art. The work gives a brief history of Latin American art, defines the modernist movements and trends that surfaced in Paris in the early...

The author addresses questions concerning Picasso's talents and originality and suggests "that modernism itself is a hall of mirrors in which 'counterfeit' and 'genuine' are two sides of the same condition. ... Picasso's pastiche of other artists is brilliantly brought into focus as the 'sublimated' underbelly of Cubism itself, refashioned in the bright, clean style of the master's neo-classicism, a defense that is its own form of practicing the forbidden."--Jacket....

"In 1911, Emily Carr returned from a sixteen-month trip to France with a new understanding of French Modernism and a radically transformed painting style, one that broke free from the artistic shackles of her conservative training and embraced a new means of expression. Her studio experiences in Paris, her en plein-air painting in the French countryside, and her encounters with such artists as expatriate English painter William Henry Phelan Gibb,...