Picasso and Stein In Composition and in the Continuous present Rosemary Distaso

Through the use of a comparative theoretical model, this thesis discusses the work of Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein in concert, specifically focusing on Picasso's three Cubist portraits of three famous art dealers, Vollard, Uhde, and Kahnweiler (all circa 1910), as well as Stein's two word portraits of Matisse and Picasso, both composed more or less contemporaneously with Picasso's portraits of the art dealers. Though scholarship largely figures the early twentieth-century revolutionary work of Picasso and Stein as simply in parallel, often denying Stein any inventive credit, through close attention to the works mentioned above, this thesis argues that although it is clear that Picasso and Stein are in dialogue, a more fruitful relationship between the two artists' work can be posited: Stein's descriptions of her struggles with the act of representation as an art form articulate Picasso's projects and allow us to reexamine not only the artists' methods, but also their achievements.

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