For Picasso, the artist's studio was the center of the world, the crossroads of all that was occurring in his life and in contemporary society. His paintings of the studio range across nearly every aspect of his art, from portraits of himself, his friends, lovers, and children, to commentaries on political events, evocations of great artists of the past, and allegories of creativity itself. This stunning book focuses on Picasso's depictions of the artist's studio in paintings, drawings, and prints throughout his career, showing how he found there his most profound expression of the creative process. 
Michael FitzGerald discusses Picasso's devotion to the studio as a place where he learned his artistic skills, as a social and intellectual center where he negotiated with dealers, disputed with critics, and seduced lovers, as a site for exploration of the imagination and of essential themes of life, and as a place where he confronted the passing of life. The major part of the book analyzes numerous relevant paintings and drawings, showing how they relate to developments in Picasso's art or life and to his oeuvre as a whole. William Robinson then focuses on the famed painting La Vie, a scene of an artist and model that is transformed into an allegory of sexual desire and social respectability.

Picasso: The Artist's Studio

Arts & Photography

FitzGerald, Michael

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

An unprecedented examination of the history of American modern art through the work of its most influential forerunner Many American artists throughout the 20th century designated Pablo Picasso as the central figure of the modern movement and defined their own artistic achievements through their absorption, critique, or rejection of his example. Picasso and American Art is a groundbreaking publication juxtaposing works by Picasso with the paintings, sculptures, and drawings created in response by an extremely diverse group of his contemporaries and successors, including Max Weber, Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, David Smith, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns. Based on extensive research, Michael FitzGerald’s text provides valuable new information on the fundamental role that Picasso played in the development of modern American art--both through his friendships with individual artists and through the dissemination of his evolving work. This book also documents, for the first time, the accessibility of Picasso’s work in the United States between 1911 and 1957 in exhibitions, collections, and publications through a comprehensive chronology. This unique book is essential for anyone interested in either Picasso or American art of the 20th century.

Picasso and American Art

History

Whitney Museum of American Art

Autism and Creativity: Is There a Link between Autism in Men and Exceptional Ability?

Autism and Creativity is a stimulating study of male creativity and autism, arguing that a major genetic endowment is a prerequisite of genius, and that cultural and environmental factors are less significant than has often been claimed. Chapters on the diagnosis and psychology of autism set the scene for a detailed examination of a number of important historical figures. For example: * in the Indian mathematician Ramanujan, the classic traits of Asperger's syndrome are shown to have coexisted with an extraordinary level of creativity * more unexpectedly, from the fields of philosophy, politics and literature, scrutiny of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sir Keith Joseph, Eamon de Valera, Lewis Carroll and William Butler Yeats reveals classical autistic features. Autism and Creativity will prove fascinating reading not only for professionals and students in the field of autism and Asperger's syndrome, but for anyone wanting to know how individuals presenting autistic features have on many occasions changed the way we understand society.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Routledge

This book is the perfect first step for people who are interested in Ruby, particularly the growing number of the Ruby on Rails users. Fully revised and updated to cover Ruby 2.3, the second edition provides a guided, hands-on tour of the basic Ruby language structures.Through many practical examples, you’ll learn how all the pieces fit together, including variables, operators, control structures, and a wide variety of features specific to Ruby, such as exception handling and XML processing.

Learning Ruby: A Hands-on Guide for Beginners

Computers & Technology

Programming

O'Reilly Media

The Monero Standard: We're Not Here For The Income, We're Here For The Outcome

Business & Money

Economics

Michael Fitzgerald

Stormtroopers of Satan: An Occult History of the Second World War

Storm Troopers of Satan

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

Robert Hale, Ltd.

Every dictatorship requires a justification, either historical or moral, and Hitler rooted his in antiscientific mumbo-jumbo, Wagnerian legend, and Satanism. This chilling investigation reveals that Hitler consulted Nostradamus before making key military decisions; that the Thulists, a sect that practiced human sacrifice and sexual perversions, founded the German Workers Party; and that black masses were conducted for elite SS corps at a "Black Camelot" in Wewelsberg. The Nazis even had their own occult bureau, the Ahnenerbe, whose research into bizarre cosmological theory, astrology, and UFOs exhausted more funds than America’s atom bomb. Against this powerful armory of evil, Stalin and Churchill employed psychic advisors, the latter even holding high-level talks with Aleister Crowley. White witches attempted to thwart "Operation Sealion" (Hitler’s planned invasion) through coven rituals. In the United States, research into mind control was vigorously pursued, and the government, in a shadowy affair known as the Philadelphia Experiment, attempted to dematerialize one of their own submarines. Going behind the war’s public events reveals a hidden agenda of psychic conflict, fought at the highest level.

Hitler's Occult War

Europe

Robert_Hale

The Making of Modern Streatham provides a unique exploration of south London: this isn't boring suburbia - there's something unexpected around every corner. With chapters on buildings, music and entertainment, transport, nature, wartime and a whole host of other themes explored, this fascinating new title is sure to be an eye-opener for those who think they know about their neck of the woods...

The Making of Modern Streatham

Fitzgerald, Janet

Photography & Video

The History Press

Aliens are among us already and their activities have increased enormously with the arrival of the new millennium. Journey with the author as he examines human/extraterrestrial interaction from ancient times to the present. Sightings, contact, and abduction cases are all considered, as well as a detailed study of the evidence for life on other planets, especially on Mars and the Moon. Become part of the search for extraterrestrial life and attempts to communicate with it. Explore the coverups and conspiracies, doomsday scenarios, and the possibility that the increase in UFO activity represents an attempt by extraterrestrials to encourage us to change direction and work together for the salvation of our planet. Or...is there a much more sinister plan afoot? Prediction: By the year 2030, we will have definite proof of the existence of intelligent life on other planets. Mysteries beckon.

Alien Arrival: Salvation or Destruction: Salvation or Destruction

New Age & Spirituality

Schiffer

This is a new scholarly narrative on artistic loners, creative misogynist and the eccentric personalities of some of history's most creative and inspiring adventurers, great thinkers, and writers whose lives and achievements are analyzed from an Asperger Syndrome perspective. The study examines the unique interplay between human creativity and the known disabilities afflicting individuals with Asperger and ADHD. There is a very close relationship between creativity and disability of one form or another. This has been recognized for thousands of years. Indeed Seneca stated that "no great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness" and John Dryden wrote "Great Wits are sure to Madness Near ally'd - and thin partitions do their bounds divide." In terms of the aetiology of creativity there is no doubt that genetic factors play a significant part. Persons with novelty / seeking personality traits, who have a genetic polymorphism called dopamine D4 show creativity of an artistic type or are great explorers. They are excited by the new, the unconventional and the innovative and examples here would be Ernest Shackleton and Arthur Koestler. Great creativity requires an unusual brain, a brain that is less integrated. It also requires personalities that are less balanced and outside the so called "normal personality". All these great creators paid a huge personal price for their creativity and for enriching our world.

The Link Between Asperger Syndrome and Scientific, Artistic, and Political Creativity: Eleven Case Studies

Psychology & Counseling

Edwin Mellen Pr

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