Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgments and Credits; Introduction: Deconstructing La Vie; Provenance, A Cautionary Tale; An Invitation; Last Moments; The Artist's Studio; Saint-Lazare; Casagemas: Suicide and the Artist as Christ-Martyr; Lovers, Models, and Fatal Women; Robed Woman; Mirror of Despair; Birdman; Death and Resurrection; Issues and Interpretations; Notes; Select Bibliography; Photo Credits.

About the Author

William H. Robinson, curator of modern European art at Cleveland Museum of Art, has published extensively on subjects concerned with European and American art of the 19th and 20th centuries, including most recently Van Gogh Repetitions (2013); Against the Grain: Modernism in the Midwest (2010) and Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudi, Miro, Dali (2006).

Reviews

"An original and worthwhile analysis of the painting through unprecedented attention to Picasso's artistic process"--Nikki Otten, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide "Uses La Vie as a catalyst to shed light on a Picasso's creative process, as well as vital issues in modernist culture of the 19th and 20th centuries"--ArtDaily


"This small-scale publication carries big impact."--Susan Behrends Frank, The Art Newspaper
"An original and worthwhile analysis of the painting through unprecedented attention to Picasso's artistic process"--Nikki Otten, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
"Uses La Vie as a catalyst to shed light on a Picasso's creative process, as well as vital issues in modernist culture of the 19th and 20th centuries"--ArtDaily