A Personal Memoir: Fragments of an Autobiography: Complete Writings, Volume I

A Personal Memoir: Fragments for an Autobiography integrates the memoirsof Antoni T pies, beginning in pre--civil war Barcelona and extending to FrancoistMadrid, existentialist Paris, and New York in the 1950s, with historical images fromdiverse sources, including the family and the artist's archives. T pies'sreflections on his interactions with such prominent cultural figures as Picasso, Mir, and Duchamp, on his approach to modernity and the avant-garde, and on thehistorical events of his lifetime -- from his birth in 1923 to the 1970s -- provideinsights into the inner sources and development of his art. Highlighting the closeties between his writings and his visual work, this volume includes a generousselection of both color and black-and-white images that trace the unfolding ofT pies's artistic language from the 1940s to thepresent.Complete Writings, Volume II, Collected Essays, will bepublished in 2011.