TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dillenberger,Jane Daggett
AU  - Handley,John
TI  - The religious art of Pablo Picasso 
SN  - 9780520276291
U1  - 709.2/ 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Berkeley 
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Picasso, Pablo
KW  - ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - ART / European
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / General
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-100) and index; The Crucifixion -- The Early Years -- Picasso and the Church -- Guernica : Ultimate Concern -- The Corrida and the Sketchbooks of the 1950s
N2  - "The first critical examination of Picasso's use of religious imagery and the religious import of many of his works with secular subject matter. Though Picasso was an avowed aetheist, his work employs themes of spirituality -- and, often, traditional religious iconography. In five engagingly written, accessible chapters, the authors address Picasso's cryptic 1930 painting of the Crucifixion; the artist's early life in the catholic church, trained as a religious painter; elements of transcendence in Guernica; Picasso's fraught relationship with the church, including a commission to paint murals for the War and Peace Chapel in France in the 1950s; and the centrality of religious themes and imagery in bullfights, subject of countless Picasso drawings and paintings. The book will shed new light on a little-known or discussed aspect of one of the central figures of 20th-century art"--
ER  -