John Richardson Bücher

Zusammenarbeit mit Marylin McCully, Übersetzung von Linda Gränz, zahlreiche Abbildungen, 528 Seiten im Schuber.

John Richardson, ein durchschnittlicher Hobbygolfer, setzt sich das Ziel, innerhalb eines Jahres Handicap 0 zu erreichen, ohne Beruf und Familie zu vernachlässigen. Mit humorvollen Erzählungen beschreibt er sein Training und die Vorstellung, dass der berühmte Golfer Severiano Ballesteros ihn begleitet, bis er schließlich seine beste Golfrunde spielt.

"My work is like a diary," Picasso once told John Richardson, who lived near the artist in Provence for a decade and became a trusted friend. This relationship allowed Richardson to observe and document how Picasso's art mirrored his life. With continued access to the artist's studios and archives through Picasso's widow, Richardson is uniquely positioned to write an insightful biography that transcends sensationalism and delves into the traumas and obsessions fueling Picasso's genius. He adeptly navigates the contradictions surrounding the artist, highlighting themes of ambivalence. Richardson reveals how Picasso's courage and terror, misogyny and tenderness, generosity and thrift, superstition and skepticism, cynicism and sentiment are reflected in his work's conflicts and paradoxes. His keen eye for the complexities of Picasso's art, combined with extensive cultural knowledge, illustrates how the artist drew from the past and the imaginations of his poet friends to forge a revolutionary synthesis. This first volume of Richardson's detailed four-volume study covers Picasso's life up to age twenty-five, detailing his struggle against his father's artistic legacy, his early successes in Barcelona and Paris, and the subsequent despair. It culminates in Picasso's realization of his role as the modern movement's messiah, supported by around nine hundred illustrations that vividly trace his artistic evolution.

The first volume of this biography emphasized Picasso's Spanish roots from Malaga to Barcelona. This second volume covers ten pivotal years of Picasso's life. It describes his relationship with Cocteau, his affair with Fernande Olivier, and the influence of women on his art.

After staying up late, a young teddy bear wakes up in a bad mood and stays that way until he takes a nap.

This title in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series brings together some of the most influential and stimulating essays on Nietzsche's philosophy to have appeared over the last three decades. Including a substantial editorial introduction by John Richardson, this volume covers Nietzsche's major interpretative positions and gives an argued examination of each.

From 1950 to 1962, John Richardson lived near Picasso in France and was a friend of the artist. After Picasso's death, his widow Jacqueline collaborated in the preparation of this work, giving Richardson access to Picasso's studio and papers.