In this, the third installment of John Richardson’s epic biography of Picasso, we find that the artist, age 36, having been spurned by two mistresses to whom he’d proposed marriage, has fled wartime ...

Much of “Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man” is a shameless, cut-and- paste job. Norman Mailer has mixed reams of copy from other writers into his own pungent prose in this idiosyncratic yet ...

Note the article: This is "a" life, not "the" life of Picasso (1881-1973). That refusal of the magisterial -- a word already used by critics to describe this ongoing biography -- is honest and ...

"Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" collects the 1904-1913 cartoons of Winsor McCay, who went on to greater fame with his Little Nemo in Slumberland strips. Image from "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" Book sales ...

These are the closing words in the fourth volume of Richardson’s mammoth biography of Picasso, and are the last we will have from him, for he died in 2019 at the age of 95. Maar’s confession is ...

Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography By Norman Mailer, Atlantic Monthly Press, $35, 400 pp. Much of “Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man” is a shameless, cut-and- paste job.