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324 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm |
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| Note |
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, May 25-September 30, 2018. |
| Language |
Translated from the Spanish. |
| Summary |
"An exhibition on the subject of Picasso's kitchen? Why not? There is nothing at all incongruous in the idea, because cooking is a subtle revelation of Picasso's art: painting, engraving, sculpture, ceramics, poetry and theatre. What is more, we should not neglect the role of the restaurant as a meeting place for the avant-gardes, from the Quatre Gats tavern in Barcelona to the cabaret Au Lapin Agile on Montmartre, where the bohemians of the time and Picasso's little entourage would share a table. Food, utensils and places related to cooking have a powerful capacity for evocation or association. Indeed, the very act of eating and digesting is a metaphor for a creative artist. In the edible--and even the inedible--there is a joyful possibility of swallowing the world. Picasso had this taste for the world and for all that is concrete, to the point of biting into it: 'I can no longer bear this miracle, that of knowing nothing of this world and having learned nothing but to love things and eat them alive.' His continual inventions and the euphoria of his imaginary bear witness to an insatiable appetite: Picasso enters the arena of the kitchen and commences his great ceremony. As Heraclitus said: 'the gods are in the kitchen.'"--Back cover. |
| Contents |
The gods are in the kitchen / Emmanuel Guigon -- What can Picasso's kitchen do? / Androula Michael -- Among pencils, brushes and words / Claustre Rafart i Planas -- From the Quatre Gats Tavern to the Cal Tampanada Inn-Cum-Studio / Claustre Rafart i Planas -- Cubist unstill lifes / Androula Michael -- Picasso's glass / Laurence Bertrand Dorléac -- Commotion in the kitchens: the epic tale of cubist cuisine / Jean-Paul Morel -- From metaphor to reality: the Vallauris Assemblage sculptures / Cécile Godefroy -- The writings of Picasso and the Kitchen. Stomach painting / Marie-Laure Bernadac ; Inedible food and the black bile of melancholy / Androula Michael ; What's cooking in Desire caught by the tail, or, The gastropoietic dramaturgy under the Occupation / Jèssica Jaques Pi ; The fruits of the earth in The four little girls / Christine Piot ; The years of the Occupation and the Restaurant Le Catalan / Emmanuel Guigon ; Between Eros and Thanatos, inside Picasso's The Kitchen / Peter Read ; Picasso and the print recipes / Coline Zellal ; Pablo Picasso's Luncheons on the grass (1959-1962): the philosophical picnic / Emilie Bouvard -- Postscriptum. There's a hair in my soup : notes on Ferran Adrià's Question 'What is cooking?" / Emmanuel Guigon and Jèssica Jaques Pi -- List of works. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Exhibitions.
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Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions.
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Dinners and dining in art -- Exhibitions.
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Food in art -- Exhibitions.
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Still-life in art -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Guigon, Emmanuel, editor.
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Michaël, Androula, editor.
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Rafart i Planas, Claustre, editor.
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Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.
Works. Selections.
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Museo Picasso, host institution.
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| ISBN |
9788494868528 (Fundació Museo Picasso de Barcelona) |
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8494868527 (Fundació Museo Picasso de Barcelona) |
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9788417048754 (La Fábrica) |
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8417048758 (La Fábrica) |
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