There have been many books about this astonishing artist, most of them written as celebrations of his creative abundance. Timothy Hilton has a more challenging purpose: to define Picasso's achievement and his place within twentieth-century art.

"A stimulating and stringent work by an excellent critic."
          —The Sunday Telegraph

"Brisk, discriminatory and full of good observations." —The Observer

"A scholarly work, full of acute observation. . . . very well illustrated." —The Artist

ISBN 0-500-20144-7 · 207 illustrations

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