Picasso's Brothel: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

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Summary: Revising and Rehabilitating Picasso's Demoiselles
Review: The state of art history comes into qusetion when reading what Andersen has to say about Picasso's Brothel. How did so many errors and misinterpretaions get into the literature? Andersen reconstructs how the Demoiselles looked befor the epiphany that Picasso underwent on seeing tribal images in the Museum of Ethnology in the Trocadero. And based on that recconstruction, he proposes that the retrospective and determinist notions about the way the imagery evolved, and the psychoanalytic interpretations of Picasso as to his terror of women, should be completely revised.