{"product_id":"picassos-war-how-modern-art-came-to-america-9780451498489","title":"Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America","description":"\u003cp\u003eA riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the worldand Picasso the most famous artist alivein the shadow of World War II  Eakin has mastered this material. . . . The book soars.The New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice)  ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vanity Fair  The New York Times Book Review  The New Yorker  In January 1939  Pablo Picasso was renowned in Europe but disdained by many in the United States. One year later  Americans across the country were clamoring to see his art. How did the controversial leader of the Paris avant-garde break through to the heart of American culture?  The answer begins a generation earlier  when a renegade Irish American lawyer named John Quinn set out to build the greatest collection of Picassos in existence. His dream of a museum to house them died with him  until it was rediscovered by Alfred H. Barr  Jr.  a cultural visionary who  at the age of twenty-seven  became the director of New Yorks new Museum of Modern Art.  Barr and Quinns shared goal would be thwarted in the years to comeby popular hostility  by the Depression  by Parisian intrigues  and by Picasso himself. It would take Hitlers campaign against Jews and modern art  and Barrs fraught alliance with Paul Rosenberg  Picassos persecuted dealer  to get Picassos most important paintings out of Europe. Mounted in the shadow of war  the groundbreaking exhibition Picasso: Forty Years of His Art would launch Picasso in America  define MoMA as we know it  and shift the focus of the art world from Paris to New York.  Picassos War is the never-before-told story about how a single exhibition  a decade in the making  irrevocably changed American taste  and in doing so saved dozens of the twentieth centurys most enduring artworks from the Nazis. Through a deft combination of new scholarship and vivid storytelling  Hugh Eakin shows how two men and their obsession with Picasso changed the art world forever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45965832912949,"sku":"ByrdShop_0451498488","price":20.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780451498489.jpg?v=1788370002","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/picassos-war-how-modern-art-came-to-america-9780451498489","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}