About the Author

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has written many books on art and literature including Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar (2000), Virginia Woolf: Illustrated Life (2002), Marcel Proust: Illustrated Life (2003) and Robert Motherwell with Pen and Brush (Reaktion, 2003).

Reviews

... a useful guide, although it does not shy away from difficulty and complication ... It also casts an oddly angled new light on Picasso's work. A fascinating volume. The Art Newspaper This penetrating study shows how Picasso's intense juggling of "objects and loves and styles" created an art that carries "a perfect if strange coherence". The Weekend Australian