Chapter Bodies of Tow and Paraffin

dc.contributor.author	Méndez Baiges, Maite
dc.date.accessioned	2022-12-22T16:07:46Z
dc.date.available	2022-12-22T16:07:46Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.identifier	ONIX_20221222_9788855186568_87
dc.identifier.issn	2704-5919
dc.identifier.uri	https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60425
dc.description.abstract	“Bodies of tow and paraffin” is the phrase used by Georges Braque, pioneer with Picasso of Cubism, to describe the alarm that he felt at his first sight of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon when he paid Picasso a visit as he was painting it in the Bateau Lavoir in 1907. This sums up well the reactions the work produced among the friends of the Spanish painter who first saw it. This chapter summarises these first reactions of horror, disgust and disappointment felt among Picasso's friends and acquaintances. It also provides a host of comments and quotes made by Picasso himself, remarkable for their contradictions and high dosages of irony.
dc.language	English
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Studi e saggi
dc.subject.classification	thema EDItEUR::A The Arts	en_US
dc.subject.other	Modernism
dc.subject.other	Demoiselles d'Avignon
dc.subject.other	Braque
dc.subject.other	Derain Kahnweiler
dc.title	Chapter Bodies of Tow and Paraffin
dc.type	chapter
oapen.identifier.doi	10.36253/978-88-5518-656-8.03
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy	bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870
oapen.relation.isbn	9788855186568
oapen.series.number	242
oapen.pages	6
oapen.place.publication	Florence