Picasso: Fifty years of his art

by Alfred H. Barr Jr., The Museum of Modern Art

Surveys Picasso's development and discoveries from his turn of the century student paintings to his World War II compositions

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

314 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1946

About the author

Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr. (1902 -1981) known as Alfred H. Barr, Jr., was an American art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

From that position, he was one of the most influential forces in the development of popular attitudes toward modern art; for example, his arranging of the blockbuster Van Gogh exhibition of 1935, in the words of author Bernice Kert, was "a precursor to the hold Van Gogh has to this day on the contemporary imagination."

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had no idea the range of Picasso's artistic expression and talent. I might not have chosen this book on my own, but since I received it from my grandmother, who bought it in the fifties while Picasso was still alive and revolutionary, I had to read it cover to cover. I was fascinated. I only wish the illustrations were in color.