The following is from the introduction by Horst Keller. I found most of it babble, but many would parallel it to Picasso's work itself. I for one, love the images in this book, although I could do without the babble, but you may find it interesting:

Picasso's drawings, whose lines, put end to end, would circle the earth several times, are not only an especially accurate chart of the tides of his changing feelings, from the celebration of life to an outcry at its misfortunes; they tell us much more: that he is undisputed master of everything he does, that he conjures up history and just as easily lets it sink again into oblivion, the he himself has remained untouched and unsullied and actually hidden, for longer than our century has lasted. Hidden, but not invisible.

Except for a very few seriocomic sketches commemoration his first proud debut on the Paris art stage at the turn of the century, Picasso has always spoken from behind a mask, like the chorus in a Greek tragedy. his questioning eye still peers form behind it onto the stage of his activity, noting the continual change of scene, giving the clues for changing motifs to appear. Inexorably, his eye follows the moving line, the gently constructive line and the recurring magnificently destructive one which transforms harmony and euphony, lasting happiness and peace, into pain.

The hidden Picasso has long known everything there is to know: burlesque is tragic, the halves of a face can attack each other in hate, Eros is reduced to surprised persistence when the object of his attention seems our of his reach - when confronted with the profound otherness of the other. Openhearted, now means open-bodied, laughter is grief. Words commingle. Attempts to describe them in words collapse. It is really more like a rainbow than a filament encircling the world, this many-tiered dance of figures Picasso has drawn, and he is always present in them, creating and repudiating, weaving and unravelling: for his prints and drawings are always within sight of each other, no matter how much truth there is in the axiom that their creator has mastered form and its vicissitudes better than any other.

>And now the pictures. These come nowhere near the actual, but they are all pictures rarely included in Picasso books, and if this were not a duplicate copy, I'd never get rid of it.

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