The Success and Failure of Picasso (35 page)

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

John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel,
A Painter of Our Time
, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included the novel
G.
, which won the Booker Prize in 1972, and the
Into Their Labours
trilogy, which is composed of
Pig Earth
(1979),
Once in Europa
(1987), and
Lilac and Flag.
His six volumes of essays include
The Sense of Sight
(1985),
Ways of Seeing
(1972), and
About Looking
(1980).

In 1962 Berger left Britain permanently, and he now lives in a small village in the French Alps.

THE WORKS OF JOHN BERGER

Pig Earth
(first book of the
Into Their Labours
trilogy)
Once in Europa
(second book of the trilogy)
Lilac and Flag
(third book of the trilogy)
A Painter of Our Time
Permanent Red
The Foot of Clive
Corker’s Freedom
A Fortunate Man
Art and Revolution
The Moment of Cubism and Other Essays
The Look of Things: Selected Essays and Articles
Ways of Seeing
Another Way of Telling
A Seventh Man
G.
About Looking
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
The Sense of Sight
The Success and Failure of Picasso

Table of Contents

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Preface

1. Picasso

2. The Painter

3. A Last Tribute

Index

About the Author

Other Books by This Author