Picasso & America: profound response or pictorial ventriloquism? An exhibition exploring Picasso's influence in the USA--which he never visited--offers both brilliant insights and strained comparisons.(Pablo Picasso)

From: Apollo | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

'That fucking Picasso. He's done everything.' Jackson Pollock's profane exasperation is as good an entry point as any into the labyrinthine story of the Spaniard's impact on American art. Famously, Picasso never visited the United States. But his presence there by proxy was ubiquitous: 'Picasso and American Art'--which travelled last month to San Francisco from the Whitney in New York, where I saw it--seeks to square a curatorial circle by tracing this hugely complex interaction. It is a tale at once obvious (as with Arshile Gorky's incestuous dialogue with Picasso) and ...

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