Picasso

This book explores the greatinterest that Pablo Picasso had in ceramics, which he certainly didn'tconsider a minor art, but a means of artistic expression in its ownright, like sculpture, painting and graphics. In Vallauris, at theMadoura ceramic laboratories, Picasso dedicated himself to working clayfor a period of 25 years, from 1946 to 1971, producing thousands ofunique pieces.

This volume retraces this exceptional chapter ofthe Picasso's art, through 50 ceramics from the Picasso of the MuséeNational Picasso in Paris - a core of inestimable value, whichrepresents almost half of the museum's large collection - placed in afertile and unprecedented dialogue with the direct sources of hisinspiration: classic ceramics with red and black figures, the Etruscan buccheri,Spanish and Italian popular ceramics, 15th century Italian graffiti,and examples of the Mediterranean area with iconographies of fish,fantastic animals, owls and birds, as well as terracottas fromMesoamerican cultures. A chapter is dedicated to the relationshipbetween Picasso and Faenza through unpublished documents from thehistorical archive of the MIC, and to the historical video by LucianoEmmer of 1954 (Picasso a Vallauris).

Text in English and Italian.