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Cubism Was a Guy Thing
Lipton, Eunice | November 6, 1995 issue

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This article appraises the book "Portrait of Picasso As a Young Man," by Norman Mailer. Mailer has strung together many lengthy quotes--one runs twelve pages almost without interruption--from books at hand, between which he has slipped some of his own paragraphs. Mailer seems to suffer from terminal Oedipus complex. He reduces the development of Cubism to a contest. In his hurry, Mailer did not even learn from Pablo Picasso's work. He takes the artist to task for making ugly art. An author writing about this painting ought to stretch the boundaries of his own mind as Picasso did while painting it.

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PORTRAIT of Picasso As a Young Man (Book); MAILER, Norman; CUBISM; PICASSO, Pablo, 1881-1973; PAINTERS; BOOKS & reading
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