Art - Phaidon and Taschen Popular Guides Compared
Phaidon Colour Library Picasso (1971) Roland Penrose Surrealist Painting (1982) Simon Wilson Pop Art ((1996) Jamie James Chagall (1998) Gill Polonsky Taschen Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973: Genius of the Century (2000) Ingo F. Walther Surrealism (2004) Cathrin Klingsohr-Leroy Abstract Expressionism (2005) Barbara Hess The Phaidon Colour Library is a remarkably cheap if old-fashioned set of full colour guides to the great artists and to some of the schools of art that make up the canon. Three particular choice from three successive decades are Roland Penrose on Picasso, Simon Wilson on Surrealism and Jamie James on Pop Art. The Phaidon Guide to Picasso (48 pages) is, unfortunately, somewhat hagiographic because the extensive Introduction is by his friend, the surrealist painter Roland Penrose. At this time, Picasso's post-war work was not being widely appreciated by critics (with some justification). Simultaneously, the artist was the subject of a highly develo