Picasso's world of children /
Werner Spies ; [translation from the German by John William Gabriel].
- 126 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
- [Pegasus library] .
Series statement from jacket.
Islands in the oeuvre -- Childhood: a strategy of beginning -- The early years and the Blue Period -- Joyless children -- The child as symbol -- "There was never any more inception than there is now" -- The disguises of the Rose Period -- Primitivism and childhood -- Cubism: the search for a world without childhood -- The motif returns -- Neoclassicism and stylistic pluralism -- The courtly portrait of his firstborn -- Private life and mythological projections -- The dead children: Guernica and the Charnel House -- The limits of representation -- "First steps" -- Objets trouves and toys -- Entering the child's perspective -- Late work.