Picassos War The Year The Art World Came To America Hugh Eakin by Hugh Eakin 9780451498502, 045149850X instant download after payment.

“Admirable and enjoyable... The story in Picasso’s War is well told, with an impressive level of biographical detail.”  -  Louis Menand, The New Yorker

In January 1939, Pablo Picasso was renowned in Europe but disdained by many in the United States. One year later, Americans across the country were clamouring to see his art. How did the controversial leader of the Paris avant-garde break through to the heart of American culture? 

The answer begins a generation earlier when a renegade Irish American lawyer named John Quinn set out to build the greatest collection of Picassos in existence. His dream of a museum to house them died with him until it was rediscovered by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., a cultural visionary who, at the age of twenty-seven, became the director of New York’s new Museum of Modern Art.  Barr and Quinn’s shared goal would be thwarted in the years to come. It would take Hitler’s campaign against Jews and modern art, and Barr’s fraught alliance with Paul Rosenberg, Picasso’s persecuted dealer, to get Picasso’s most important paintings out of Europe. 

“[Eakin] has mastered this material... he manages to braid aesthetics with history with personal details... the book soars. His achievement is keeping the complex plotline moving while offering sharp insights and astute judgments.”  -  The New York Times Book Review

Mounted in the shadow of war, the groundbreaking exhibition Picasso: Forty Years of His Art would launch Picasso in America, define MoMA as we know it, and shift the focus of the art world from Paris to New York. Through a deft combination of new scholarship and vivid st