A brief history of the artist from God to Picasso

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Label

A brief history of the artist from God to Picasso

Statement of responsibility

Paul Barolsky

Creator

• Barolsky, Paul, 1941-

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Art -- Historiography
• Artists -- History
• Electronic books
• Literature and history

Language

eng

Summary

In A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso, Paul Barolsky explores the ways in which fiction shapes history and history informs fiction. It is a playful book about artistic obsession, about art history as both tragedy and farce, and about the heroic and the mock-heroic. The book demonstrates that the modern idea of the artist has deep roots in the image of the epic poet, from Homer to Ovid to Dante. Barolsky's major claim is that the history of the artist is inseparable from historical fiction about the artist and that fiction is essential to the reality of the artist's imagination

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

709

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult