...Pierre Daix Copyright © 2001 The Trustees of Columbia University 2001 Pierre Daix PICASSO ET ARAGON, INCOMPREHENSIONS ETCENSURES A ragon entre, des son retour de guerre, dans la vie de Picasso, vers la fin de 1919, en lui demandant un frontispice pour son premier recueil de poemes Feu de joie...

...Serge Gavronsky Copyright © 2001 The Trustees of Columbia University 2001 Serge Gavronsky ARAGON: POLITICS AND PICASSO Impossible to separate Aragon, art critic, from the historical movements of his century, from an understanding he shared with Stendhal that history makes sense...

... text, titled Aesthetic Meditations, on the beauties of "modern," i.e. Cubist, painting, and then The Cubist Painters proper, a series of essays on nine French Cubist painters of the day, giving pride of place to Picasso and Braque before continuing to Metzinger, Gleizes, Laurencin, Gris, Leger, Picabia...

..., cultural and political scene of left-wing intelligentsia in Europe and France. He was a friend of some of the greatest artists of this century. He knew Matisse well and wrote about him, both in his fiction (Henri Matisse, roman) and in his art criticism. He was very close to Picasso and was particularly...

... absurd proportions in proving slavishly the Zhdanov philosophy of socialist realism, abandoning it only when personally stung in the Picasso portrait affair. He later repudiated the painting of Fougeron, but he initially contributed to its launching. He sang the praises of Zhdanov and championed Lyssenko...

... and the Production of the 1538 Angoysses Douloureuses qui procedent d'amours," 381-404 Chiampi, James, "Testifying to his Text: Primo Levi and the Concentrationary Sublime," 491-512 Conde, Maryse, "Fous-t'en Depestre, laisse dire Aragon," 177-184 Daix, Pierre, "Picasso et Aragon, incomprehensions et censures," 39-46...

... distinctes. En effet, la premiere section (Peintres 1) se reclame d'une activite critique plus classique dans la mesure OU elle rassemble une serie d'ecrits parus al'originc dans des revues (ainsi les textes sur Picasso et Miro ont ete publies 1. ]e ne mettrai cependant pas au centre de la reflexion la...

... the infamous portrait of Stalin by Picasso that adorns our wonderful poster. This was the period when the PCF fully earned, more claimed as an honor, the title of "Stalinist" with Thorez the "best Stalinist in France." The party routinely obstructed parliamentary debates, viciously attacked the Socialists...

... legends of stunning, seemingly inborn and effortless talent evident from youth, from Ingres to Picasso; but the novel seems far more resistant to the narrative of genius-we do not speak of a "novelistic prodigy." The novel's association with mimesis in particular, which as jefferson shows had...

... Picasso. In Le Mystere Picasso (1956), the two artists state as one of their objectives to "montrer les tableaux qui sont sous Ie tableau." Taking seriously Clouzot's description of Les Diaboliques as "une peinture morale," this article probes and finds the paintings beneath the painting. In his review...

...). Les Surprises de Fragollard (1987). Photos licencieuses de 11.1 Belle Epoque ('19H7). De Koollillg, l,ite (19HH). Venise eternelle: Voyageurs photographes au siecle derl1ier (1995). Le Paradis de 38 ARIINE KOTIN MORTHvlER Cezanne (1995). Les Passio11s de Francis Bacon (1996). Picasso, Ie heros (1996...

... divided into two parts: first a theoretic text, titled Aesthetic Meditations, on the beauties of "modern," i.e. Cubist, painting, and then The Cubist Painters proper, a series of essays on nine French Cubist painters of the day, giving pride of place to Picasso and Braque before continuing to Metzinger...

... Picasso illustrated Les Metamorphoses, the first book published by the prestigious Swiss art publisher Albert Skira, in 1931. "Hercule tue Ie Centaure Nessus" is among the most astonishing etchings, all very figurative compared with what Picasso would do with Women of Algiers. 15. "Je cohabite avec la...

..., et je ferai ici un detour par leurs propositions. Dans "Variations sur la variation ou de Picasso a Bach"4, ces auteurs se sont efforces de definir la variation dans les arts en general. Selon eux, pour qu'il y ait a proprement parler variation, il ne suffit pas qu'une ceuvre nous offre un jeu 3...

... Picasso, que la musique est de Satie, mais il doute si Picasso et Satie ne sont pas de lui." 1S What he objected to in Cocteau's modernism was not so much the desire for new forms of expression, but its lack of openness to the future: "Je ne pretends point qu'il ait tort de croire que l'art ne respire...

.... On comprend bien OU je veux en venir; Aragon n'exploite jamais comme un fond de commerce, la trouvaille. Sa grandeur, comme celIe de Picasso, est de toujours se deplacer, d'inventer sans cesse. De ne jamais se repeter. Le mouvement de l'reuvre n'est pas a analyser dans une succession de moments independants...

... Melville, et Whitman, Henri James et Mark Twain, il fallait que vint Dreiser afin que fut possible la jeune pleiade des ta-Ients nouveaux, et Faulkner et Steinbeck et Caldwell, de nos jours en France admires . . . " Et il disait ensuite son "orgueil" que Dreiser ait cite, "avec d'autres" [Picasso, Martin...

... d'Elsa Triolet et de Lili Brik parues chez Albin Michel. COUPLE ROYAL, COUPLE AMBIGU 219 Le regne du couple-soutenu par la direction du PC-est parfois ebranle un moment. II y a "l'affaire du portrait de Staline par Picasso", tragique et bouffonne. Mais Ie regne perdure. A leur retour d'URSS en 1953, ils...

... Bergson dans Ie domaine de Ia philosophie ou que Picasso dans Ie domaine de I'art : c'est de l'interieur qu'ils ont ouvert ce qui apparaissait desormais comme un carcan, pour Iiberer un nouveau devenir. Conclusion : Ie detricotage de Penelope. J'ai dit « Iigne de fuite » et « devenir », evoquant ainsi...

... rever sur l'emploi barrien des adjectifs, Ie somewhat specious qu'on vient de voir, amon usage et Ie far more conspicuously applique au communisme de Picasso par comparaison (soyons juste) avec celui de Fernand Leger. (p.362) 90 DOMINIQUE VAUGEOIS It is important to realize, beyond the direct reference...