Stéphane Guégan et al.
Picasso-Mania.
Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2015. First edition. 9783777425207  339 pages.
Large-format volume,measuring approximately 10" x 11.75", is bound in illustrations glossy boards. Book is new, still in shrinkwrap.
"The figure of Picasso has haunted the imagination of generations of artists, his major stylistic periods and iconic works provoking a wide range of responses. With 390 illustrations, this publication showcases the fertile confrontation between Picasso and artists worldwide since the 1960s. It was int he 1960s that exponents of Pop Art and Narrative Figuration such as Warhol, Lichtenstein, Equipo Cronica and Erró rediscovered the power of Picassien archetypal figures. By the 1980s, a veritable "Picasso mania" had developed. David Hockney's Polaroid composites and multi-screen videos echo Picasso's Cubism and his exploration of a "polyfocal space". Picasso's stylistic eclecticism, his "cannibalism" of the old masters, and the free technique of his later paintings inspired a new generation of figurative artists such as Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Julian Schnabel. At the same time, the continuing challenge of Picasso's "Guernica" has prompted politically engaged artists ranging from Leon Golub to Dia al-Azzawi and Maqbool Fida Husain, while Ayana V.  Jackson, Faith Ringgold and others have re-engaged with the still provocative "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" in terms of gender, politics, race, and cultural appropriation. And among the works that illustrate Picasso's presence in contemporary media there is Rineke Dijkstra's video installation "I See a Woman Crying" ("Weeping Woman"), 2009-2010."