As I was walking through the library the spine of this book caught my eye. So I picked it up and here I am the next day writing my review.
My only disappointment with this book is that it is missing many pages. Obviously those who have read it before me didn't seem to care that they were ripping out pages that someone else may like to look at. Most of the pages that are missing are from the section of the book entitled Picasso's Picassos. So most of what I missed wasn't the story but rather the paintings that were pictured.
The author of this book doesn't seem to have sat and "wrote" the book. Most of the text is letter that he had written to others about his time spent with Picasso and his family. The sections that are letters are mostly explanations of pictures and little blurbs about Picasso's family. I found it to be quite revealing without giving us everything. Picasso seemed to be a very quiet man and while his homes were of a grand scale the pauper lifestyle that he lived seems to give him a sense of being "normal". The pictures in this book of Picasso are great and I think that the photographer/author did a great job of showing a regular man who loved his family and his work
My only disappointment with this book is that it is missing many pages. Obviously those who have read it before me didn't seem to care that they were ripping out pages that someone else may like to look at. Most of the pages that are missing are from the section of the book entitled Picasso's Picassos. So most of what I missed wasn't the story but rather the paintings that were pictured.
The author of this book doesn't seem to have sat and "wrote" the book. Most of the text is letter that he had written to others about his time spent with Picasso and his family. The sections that are letters are mostly explanations of pictures and little blurbs about Picasso's family. I found it to be quite revealing without giving us everything. Picasso seemed to be a very quiet man and while his homes were of a grand scale the pauper lifestyle that he lived seems to give him a sense of being "normal". The pictures in this book of Picasso are great and I think that the photographer/author did a great job of showing a regular man who loved his family and his work
