Free Download Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France, 1900-1973 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6NP8H5M | 2023 | 19 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 556 MB
Author: Annie Cohen-Solal
Narrator: Carlotta Brentan
Before Picasso became Picasso-the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France's leading figures-he was constantly surveilled by the police. Amidst political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as an anarchist by the security services. Though he soon became the leader of the cubist avant-garde, and became increasingly wealthy as his reputation grew worldwide, Picasso's art was largely excluded from public collections in France for the next four decades. In a country where the police and the conservative Academie des Beaux-Arts represented two major pillars of the establishment at the time, Picasso faced a triple stigma-as a foreigner, a political radical, and an avant-garde artist.