书名：Picasso: Printmaker / 毕加索：版画家

作者：Catherine Daunt

出版：The British Museum ，2025

装帧：平装，160页

语种：英文

尺寸：22*25 cm

毕加索是探索版画媒介最具创造力和实验精神的天才之一。本书记录了他作为版画家的职业生涯，这一生涯的特点是与技艺精湛的印刷工紧密合作，共同创作出了非凡的艺术作品。

在西班牙艺术家巴勃罗·毕加索（1881-1973）漫长的艺术生涯中，版画创作是一项至关重要的活动。他与版画制作的结缘既长久又时而间断，从他在巴黎的早期岁月一直延续到晚年。本书探讨了不同版画媒介（蚀刻、水彩画技法、木刻和石版印刷）的技术挑战如何激发了毕加索的创造力。

除了精选毕加索的纸上作品外，本书还收录了雕塑、绘画以及其他艺术家和文化的作品，这些作品正是激发毕加索灵感的源泉。他的版画作品常常展现出他对自己属于一个源远流长的艺术血脉的强烈归属感，这一血脉可以追溯到古代（源于他与出生地马拉加地中海世界的渊源），以及过去的伟大艺术家，如拉斐尔、伦勃朗和安格尔。其中一个章节探讨了毕加索与妻子和情人关系中的矛盾与争议。本书聚焦于毕加索作为版画家的身份，论证了这一活动在他漫长的艺术生涯中的重要性，以及他作为探索版画媒介最具创造力和实验精神的天才之一的持续影响力。

The accompanying book to the British Museum exhibition Picasso: printmaker.

Picasso was one of the most creative and experimental talents ever to explore the medium of print. This book charts his career as a printmaker, which was characterised by close collaboration with skilled printers, through which extraordinary artworks were produced.

Printmaking was a vitally important activity in the long artistic career of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). His longstanding, if at times episodic, engagement with printmaking stretched from his early years in Paris until his old age. This book explores how the technical challenges of working in different print media (etching, aquatint, linocut and lithography) inspired Picasso’s creativity.

Together with a stunning selection of works on paper by Picasso, it also includes sculptures, drawings and prints by other artists and cultures of the kind that inspired Picasso. His prints often demonstrate his keen sense of belonging to an artistic lineage stretching back to antiquity (stemming from his kinship with the Mediterranean world of his birthplace, Málaga), as well as great artists of the past such as Raphael, Rembrandt and Ingres. One section explores the contradictions and controversies relating to Picasso’s relationships with his wives and lovers. The focus on Picasso as a printmaker will argue for the importance of this activity in his long artistic career, and his continued relevance as one of the most creative and experimental talents ever to explore the medium of print.