Snapshotism
Mary Ann Caws: Picabia's Dada, 21 February 2008
I Am a Beautiful Monster
by Francis Picabia, translated by Marc Lowenthal.
MIT, 478 pp., £22.95, October 2007,978 0 262 16243 2 Show More
by Francis Picabia, translated by Marc Lowenthal.
MIT, 478 pp., £22.95, October 2007,
The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris
by George Baker.
MIT, 476 pp., £24.95, October 2007,978 0 262 02618 5 Show More
by George Baker.
MIT, 476 pp., £24.95, October 2007,
“... and drawings, I Am a Beautiful Monster, is wrapped in a brown-bag cover of monsterdom, while George Baker’s book about Picabia, The Artwork Caught by the Tail, is presented in a costume of gleaming gold: so we have the modest-appearing original, with its provocative title, and the shiny interpretation of that writing and drawing. In Marc ... ”