A new, affordable survey of Picasso's sculptural oeuvre with a focus on his endlessly inventive explorations of the body

Representations of the body form the cornerstone of this major publication focusing on Picasso's sculpture, published for the first Spanish exhibition on this theme, at the Museo Picasso in Málaga and the Guggenheim Bilbao. Assembled by Carmen Giménez, the Museo Picasso Málaga's first director, it includes a careful selection of sculptures that illustrates the tremendous plurality of styles in which Picasso explored and expanded forms of three-dimensional representation of the human body.
Picasso used all the materials at his disposal in his sculptures-wood, bronze, iron, cement, steel and plaster-a fact that expresses the primacy of the medium for him. The human body likewise proved an enduring source of fascination and creative reinvention for the artist, and his sculptural work ingeniously balances deformation and sensuality across the span of his prodigious career.

¿ This catalog includes a careful and beautiful selection of sculptures that Picasso produced throughout his extensive artistic career. ¿ Matter and Body covers the almost infinite plurality of styles used by the artist to represent human body forms, deconstructing it through different formats and genres. ¿ Written by renowned experts as the curator Carmen Gimenez, Diana Widmaier Picasso, French art historian specialized in modern art and the maternal granddaughter of Pablo Picasso, and Pepe Karmel, Professor of Art History at New York University. ¿ The book celebrates the 50th anniversary of the death of a great genius and revolutionary artist. ¿ Includes photographs taken by his contemporary photographer Brassai. ¿ A great monograph published on occasion of the exhibition at the Guggenhiem Museum in Bilbao and Museo Picasso in Málaga.