The Success and Failure of Picasso

INDEX

Abstract art, freedom and

Apollinaire, Guillaume:

and Cubism, 1.1, 1.2

death of, 1.1, 1.2

and electricity

and the new poetry, 1.1, 1.2

and Parade, 1.1, 1.2

and Picasso’s genius

Aragon, Louis

Arcadia:

Bellini’s

Léger’s

Picasso’s

Titian’s

Art:

boom in

intrusion of politics in

as an oracle

Bakunin, Mikhail

Barcelona, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

Bellini, Giovanni

Besson, Georges, 1.1, 1.2

Bohr, Niels

Bourgeoisie:

attitude of to art, 1.1, 1.2

attitude of to poverty

and the modern artist, 1.1, 2.1

success, in eyes of

unreality of

utilitarianism of

worthlessness of honours offered by

Brancusi, Constantin

Braque, Georges, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4

Brenan, Gerald

Césaire, Aimé, 2.1, 2.2

Cézanne, Paul, 1.1, 1.2

Chaplin, Charles

Clouzot, Henri-Georges, his film on Picasso

Cocteau, Jean, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

Communism, 1.1, 2.1

Communist Party of France, 2.1, 2.2

Courbet, Gustave

Cubism:

as art of interaction

and film

importance of

materials used

and modern physics

and monopoly capitalism

preparations for

revolutionary nature of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

sexuality of

simultaneity of viewpoints

starting-point of

subject-matter

Darwin, Charles

Delacroix, Eugéne

de la Serna, Ramon Gomez

Demoiselles d’Avignon, Les

di Cosimo, Piero

Duende, see Spain

Europe, modern:

outcasts from

Picasso’s attitude to, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1

poverty of

unreality of, 2.1, 2.2

Expressionism

Fascism

Fra Angelico

France:

attitude to art

German occupation of, and

Nude with a Musician, 2.1, 2.2

Frazer, Sir James

Futurists

Gauguin, Paul

Giorgione

Gris, Juan, 1.1, 1.2

Guernica, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2

Heisenberg, Werner

History, effects of on character

Impressionism, 1.1, 1.2

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique, 1.1, 2.1

Jacob, Max, 1.1, 1.2

Jahn, Janheinz

Kafka, Franz, 1.1, 1.2

Keats, John

Léger, Fernand

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 1.1, 1.2

Lerroux, Alezandro, 1.1, 1.2

Lorca, Federico García

Magic:

illusions of

and the Spanish duende

Malaga, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

Manet, Edouard

Manolo

Marx, Karl, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

Millais, Sir John

Millet, Jean François

Monopoly capitalism, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1

Olivier, Fernande

Ortega y Gasset, José

Parade

Paris, 1.1, 1.2

Parmelin, Hélène

Pastiche

Penrose, Roland, 1.1, 2.1

Picasso, Pablo:

and anarchism, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

attitude to own genius, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

birth of

as a bourgeois revolutionary

a child prodigy, 1.1, 1.2

becomes a communist

confessions of, in autobiographical drawings

conflict with father, 1.1, 2.1

crisis of his subject-matter, 2.1, 2.2

devotion to his own creativity, 1.1, 1.2

discontinuity of his work

end of his isolation

example of

his exile, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

fear of blindness, 1.1, 1.2

historical ambiguity of

humanism of

as an impersonator

influence of African masks on

influence of archaic Spanish sculpture on

intensity of his art, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1

his irrationalism, 1.1, 1.2

the legend

loneliness of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1

as a magician, 1.1, 1.2

market prices

as the Minotaur

as a national monument

nature of his genius, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2

as Pan

and the portrayal of pain, 2.1, 2.2

on research in painting

and sensation in art

sexuality of his art

unchanged vision of

work since 1945

and world communist movement

Pottery

Poussin, Nicholas:

Triumph of Pan

Prodigies in art

Quantum mechanics

Raynal, Maurice

Rembrandt, 2.1, 3.1

Revolutionary thought:

bourgeois, 1.1, 2.1

proletarian, 1.1, 2.1

Richardson, John

Romanticism:

attitude of to work

Rousseau, father of

vision of the future

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Rusiñol, Santiago

Sabartes, Jaime

Salmon, André

Schiele, Egon

Scientific thought, revolution in

Sex, shared subjectivity of, 2.1, 2.2

Sexuality in art

Siqueiros, David

Soviet Union:

art policy of

attitude to Cubism

Picasso’s reputation in

Spain:

and anarchism, 1.1, 1.2

Civil War in, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2

contribution of to culture

and the duende

feudalism of, 1.1, 1.2

historical character of

middle classes in

Subject-matter of art:

new subjects

social functions of

Symbolists

Tintoretto

Titian, 1.1, 3.1

Van Gogh, Vincent, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6

Velázquez, Diego, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1

Walter, Marie-Thérèse, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

Whitehead, A. N.

World War (First):

battle of the Aisne, 1.1, 1.2

Picasso’s indifference to

as turning-point in history, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

World War (Second), 2.1, 2.2

Yeats, W. B., 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2