Picasso by norman mailer biography
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Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man
By Chris Busa
Stocky, powerful, and libidinous, he was also short, cowardly, and fearful. A rough chunk of primal matter, with dark zones of energy drawn around the eyes, he mesmerized women.
He mesmerized men.
Picasso by norman mailer biography
For the artists who came of age during the ’30s and ’40s, Norman Mailer’s generation, Picasso was God. Mailer witnessed this homage and absorbed it, eventually signing a contract in 1962 to write a biography of the artist and spending some weeks with Picasso’s oeuvre in reproduction and two more months writing a series of self-interviews.
These inquiries were essentially dialogues between self and soul about the violent act of creating artistic forms.
Published in 1966 as a 200-page conclusion to Cannibals and Christians, a collection of occasional pieces, the writing was all the more extravagant for being in the bastard form of journalistic Q&A.
Mailer explored his key ideas through the dynamic of an interrogator who was at