In his new book, Looking at Picasso, Pepe Karmel approaches the artist’s work through the lens of art rather than biography, showing how he invented multiple new visual languages and transformed the traditional themes of Western art.
In this special lecture for the Department of Art History, Prof. Karmel will begin by giving an overview of his book and will then address the question of whether Picasso’s work still matters today, when contemporary art seems to have evolved so far beyond historic styles like Cubism and Neo-Classicism, and when photography rather than life-drawing seems to be the starting point for artistic creation. Is Picasso’s work a relic of expired revolutions, or does it still speak to art today?
Does Picasso Still Matter?
