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The Guitarist

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Description: The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814–1914
~~‘I LOVE [EVA] VERY MUCH AND I WILL WRITE THIS in my paintings’, Pablo Picasso wrote in a letter to his dealer Daniel...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.181-209
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00298.5
Description: Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism
Some time in late summer 1912 Picasso took a photograph (fig. 94) at the front door of the villa he had rented for the season at Sorgues. We know that Braque had brought down the “machine à photographie” specially from Paris a week or so before. The picture records the main paintings Picasso had done over the previous two months. On the doorstep, from left to right, are perched the imposing Portrait of a Man, which in time got called the Aficionado (fig. 95), the equally grand …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.169-223
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00048.007
Description: Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures
ONE IMPLICATION of all this is that, given such odd objects of explanation, the relation of the art historian to historical method is likely to be a Bohemian one. The theory of historical explanation has tended to divide into two camps — the nomological (or nomothetic) and the teleological (or idiographic). On one side the nomological people argue that it is possible, at least in principle, to explain historical human actions within quite strictly causal terms as examples covered by general laws …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.12-40
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00091.004

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