- Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Modernism
- Maite Méndez Baiges
Bodies of Tow and Paraffin
- Maite Méndez Baiges
- © 2022 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-656-8.03
“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.
- Keywords:
- Modernism,
- Demoiselles d'Avignon,
- Braque,
- Derain Kahnweiler,
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Bodies of Tow and Paraffin
Authors
Maite Méndez Baiges
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-656-8.03
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Publication Year
2022
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Book Title
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Modernism
Authors
Maite Méndez Baiges
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
148
Publication Year
2022
Copyright Information
© 2022 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-656-8
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978-88-5518-655-1
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978-88-5518-656-8
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978-88-5518-657-5
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
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2704-5919