The poetic side of genius; Pablo Picasso's writing - done in the raw, unpunctuated style of the Surrealists - receives its first major translation into English in a new volume of poetry.(FEATURES)(ARTS)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: March 18, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Timothy Cahill Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Near the end of his life, Pablo Picasso predicted to a friend he would be remembered as a "Spanish poet who dabbled in painting, drawing, and sculpture." The most famous artist of the 20th century was certainly joking. Picasso (1881-1973) knew he would be forever identified as the figure who rejected Renaissance traditions, ushering in a complex new relationship of the artist to the visible world and the audience.

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