Author Interview: Hugh Eakin's "Picasso's War"

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ArtCurious

Arts, History, Visual Arts

4.8 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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We’re back on ArtCurious with another great interview episode for you today. Today’s episode features a conversation about Picasso’s War, a recent book by journalist Hugh Eakin. Today we think of New York as the center of the twentieth century art world, but it took three determined men, two world wars, and one singular artist to secure the city’s cultural prominence. Pablo Picasso was the most influential and perplexing artist of his age, and the turning points of his career and salient facets of his private life have intrigued the world for decades. However, the tremendous feat of winning support for his art in the U.S. has long been overlooked—until now. In PICASSO’S WAR: How Modern Art Came to America, Eakin details the never-before-told story of how a single exhibition, years in the making, finally brought the 20th century’s most notorious artist U.S. acclaim, irrevocably changed American culture, and in doing so saved dozens of the twentieth century’s most enduring artworks from the Nazis. Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts and FOLLOW on Spotify Instagram / Facebook / YouTube Buy Picasso’s War here! SPONSORS: BetterHelp: Get 10% off your first month of counseling The Barnes Foundation: For a limited time, get 10% off your first Barnes Class when you visit our link Canvasprints.com: Get 25% off of your entire order of canvas prints, canvas wall displays, metal prints, photo tiles, photo blankets and pillows, and much more when you use code ARTCURIOUS25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	Hi there, listeners. Welcome to a bonus episode of Art Curious. Today's show is an interview with
0:36.0	journalist Hugh Aiken about his awesome book from earlier this summer called Picasso's War, How Modern Art Came to America.
0:45.2	Today we think of New York as the center of 20th century art world, but it took three determined men, two world wars, and one singular artist to secure the city's cultural prominence.
0:57.2	Pablo Picasso was the most influential and perplexing artist of his age,
1:02.1	and the turning points of his career and salient facets of his private life have intrigued the world for decades.
1:08.4	However, the tremendous feat of winning support for his art in the U.S.
1:12.3	has long been overlooked until now. In Picasso's war, how modern art came to America,
1:19.3	Hugh Aiken details the never-before-told story of how a single exhibition years in the making
1:25.4	finally brought the 20th century's most notorious artist
1:29.3	U.S. acclaim, irrevocably changed American culture, and in doing so, saved dozens of the
1:36.2	20th century's most enduring works from the Nazis. Through a series of discoveries leading to
1:42.3	dozens of archives in the U.S. and Europe, Aiken successfully
1:46.3	assembles firsthand accounts of the small group of people who made this happen. The renegade
1:51.6	Irish-American lawyer John Quinn and the Mountain Girl turned foreign correspondent Gene Foster,
1:57.9	the art dealer Paul Rosenberg, and the Wunderkind Museum founder Alfred Barr,
2:02.9	among many others. Working sometimes together and often at odds, they were determined to bring
2:08.6	the radical art revolutions of Europe to the states, no matter what, stood in their way. In the end,
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