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Book Title
Day with Picasso
Publication Name
A Day with Picasso
Title
A Day with Picasso
Author
Billy Kluver
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0262611473
EAN
9780262611473
ISBN
9780262611473
Publisher
MIT Press
Genre
Art
Release Date
18/02/1999
Release Year
1999
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.3in
Item Length
9.1in
Item Width
7.1in
Item Weight
9 Oz
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
Individual Artists / General
Number of Pages
110 Pages

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In 1978, while collecting documentary photographs of the artists' community in Montparnasse from the first decades of the century, Billy Kl ver discovered that some previously unassociated photographs fell into significant groupings. One group in particular, showing Picasso, Max Jacob, Mo se Kisling, Modigliani, and others at the Caf de la Rotonde and on Boulevard du Montparnasse, all seemed to have been taken on the same day. The people were wearing the same clothes in each shot and had the same accessories. Their ties were knotted the same way and their collars had the same wrinkles. A total of twenty-four photographs--four rolls of film with six photographs each--were eventually found. With the challenge of identifying the date, photographer, and circumstances, Kl ver embarked on an inquiry that would illuminate the minute texture of that time and place. Biographical research into the subjects' lives led Kl ver to focus on the summer of 1916 as the likely time the photos were taken. He then measured buildings and plotted angles and lengths of shadows in the photographs to narrow the time frame to a spread of three weeks. Further investigation eventually allowed Kl ver to identify the photographer as Jean Cocteau and to determine the day that Cocteau had taken the photographs: August 12, 1916. A computer printout of the sun's positions on that date, obtained from the Bureau des Longitudes, together with the length of the shadows, enabled Klver to calculate the time of day of each photograph, and thus to put them in proper sequence. In a tour de force of art historical research, Kl ver then reconstructed a scenario of the events of the four hours depicted in the photographs. With evocative attention to detail--noting when Picasso is no longer carrying an envelope or Max Jacob has acquired a decoration in his lapel--Kl ver recreates a single afternoon in the lives of Picasso and friends, a group of remarkable people in early twentieth-century Paris. Besides the central portfolio of photographs by Cocteau, the book contains additional photographs and drawings, short biographies of all the subjects, and a historical section on the events and activities in the Paris art world at the time.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262611473
ISBN-13
9780262611473
eBay Product ID (ePID)
852354

Product Key Features

Book Title
Day with Picasso
Author
Billy Kluver
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Art
Number of Pages
110 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
7.1in
Item Weight
9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Age Range
18
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
709.2
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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