Overview
But in most ways, they couldnāt have been more different. Picasso was a communist, and probably the only thing Harry Truman hated more than communists was modern art. Picasso was an indifferent father, a womanizer, and a millionaire. Truman was utterly devoted to his family and, despite his fame, far from a rich man. How did they come to be shaking hands in front of Picassoās studio in the south of France?
Trumanās meeting with Picasso was quietly arranged by Alfred H. Barr Jr., the founding director of New Yorkās Museum of Modern Art and an early champion of Picasso. Barr knew that if he could convince these two ideological antipodes, the straight-talking politician from Missouri and the Cubist painter from MĆ”laga, to simply shake hands, it would send a powerful message, not just to reactionary Republicans pushing McCarthyism at home, but to the whole world: modern art was not evil.
Truman author Matthew Algeo retraced the Trumansā Mediterranean vacation and visited the places they went with Picasso, including Picassoās villa, Picassoās ceramics studio in Vallauris, and ChĆ¢teau Grimaldi, a museum in Antibes.
A rigorous history with a heartwarming center, When Harry Met Pablo intertwines the biographies of Truman and Picasso, the history of modern art, and twentieth-century American politics, but at its core it is the touching story of two old men who meet for the first time and realize they have more in commonāand are more alikeāthan they ever imagined.
This book title, When Harry Met Pablo (Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art), ISBN: 9781641607872, by Matthew Algeo, published by Chicago Review Press (November 14, 2023) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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