Picasso: Creator and Destroyer
Huffington's controversial biography paints Picasso as a genius whose creativity ran in tandem with cruelty toward the women and friends around him.
Huffington’s biography set out to complicate the myth of Picasso as pure creative force. Drawing on interviews with those closest to him, she portrays a man whose genius was inseparable from a compulsion to dominate and discard the people in his life, especially the women. The book stirred controversy on release for refusing to separate the art from the artist, and it remains a vivid, unsettling study of what unchecked creative ego can cost the people around it.
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