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(17.11.2022) How to warm up – for writing a book on Picasso? I am choosing this way: by writing reviews of the research tools that I have appreciated the most (and I am adding one that I have created myself to that list). ![]() (Picture: amazon.com) One) Johannes M. Fox, Picassos Welt (2008) ›Picasso’s world‹ comes in two volumes, 1419 numbered pages (including 2 pages of author’s curriculum vitae), and since I am fortunate to own this Picasso dictionary, I can say that it has an architectural quality to it, and, in my view, also does represent the solid persistence of an architect. Its author, Johannes M. Fox, who actually spent his professional life in the pharmaceutical industry, had been interested in Picasso for thirty years, and worked seven years for this book, which allows to enter and to study Picasso’s biography, apart from it covering persons, places, dates, events, references, techniques, political influences and familial character, at any point in his life; and it allows to study the spaces, where Picasso lived and worked, in so-called longitudinal sections. Brief: It does allow the reader to walk these spaces – and to have anything explained that might come up within these spaces, be it, in the contexts of these longitudinal cuts itself, or in other lemmata, since the book is very comprehensive. ![]() (Picture: amazon.com) Two) Pierre Daix, Le nouveau dictionnaire Picasso (2012) Pierre Daix was also a very persistent man, but the style of his persistence was a different one. Not that of an architect. Or, if it was, Daix, again and again, created the same building again in new ways. Also his Picasso dictionary does exist in two editions (the earlier edition was published in 1995). And one might mention here as well that Daix also published memoirs twice, not his memoirs twice, in slightly reworked manner the second time, but twice: memoirs, from different angles, from various points in his life, looking at his life. Memoirs that are interesting to compare, but it does also require a sort of persistence from the reader, to get all the nuances Daix might offer as an author (also revealing many things, rather between the lines). I have not checked, if the 1995 dictionary does show a very different angle, since this earlier edition is not available to me, but I do own the 2012 edition. Three) Dictionnaire amoureux villa La Californie This is meant to be a new entry to my Dictionary of Imaginary Art Historical Works: the Dictionnaire amoureux villa La Californie, done by myself (in imaginary fashion). A nostalgic project? Perhaps. But one that would do justice to a house that I have visited only in imaginary form, by way of looking at pictures (by Edward Quinn, above all, in my childhood), but a house, that, now, I have also studied in its topography and historical meaning as a historian (of Picasso in 1956). I have come to know the Chinese artists that, in 1956, visited this place. I have read flamboyant descriptions by Jean Cocteau of that place that, often, he did visit (perhaps less often than he did wish so), I do know all the animals (including various goats, and also including their literary meaning) La Californie was ever populated with, and all the plants as well as trees, all the visitors as well as their presents, all the informants, spies and secret places, and I do know where exactly the children, then, buried their treasure trove in the garden (perhaps it is still there). All will be revealed in this dictionary – but only in imaginary form. ![]() (Picture: DS; Google search) MICROSTORY OF ART © DS |