Scope: Born in Spain, Picasso was an influential force in modern art. He is noted for his period pieces such as his “Blue Period” where his art indicates his obsession with matters of life and death. During his “Rose Period” his sad mood was reflected in his use of grays and pinks. 

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES 

REF N6490.C6567 Contemporary Artists

REF N31.D5 1996 The Dictionary of Art

REF N6512.C854 Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists 

REF N5300.I45 1984 The Illustrated Dictionary of Art & Artists

REF N 33.P74 2000 The Prestel Dictionary of Art and Artists of the 20th Century

Some representative books from the circulating collection that a re located upstairs in the library:

CIRCULATING BOOKS 

Daix, Pierre. Picasso: Life and Art. New York: Icon Editions, 1993.

Huffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos. Picasso: Creator and Destroyer. New York: Simon And Schuster, 1988.

Kaplan, Temma. Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso’s Barcelona.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Krauss, Rosalind E. The Picasso Papers. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

Leal, Brigitte. The Ultimate Picasso. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000.

Picasso, Pablo. Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form: Graphic Works, 
1895-1972. New York: Prestel, 2000.

Picasso, Pablo. Picasso and the War Years, 1937-1945. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998.

Picasso, Pablo. Picasso—the Early Years, 1892-1906. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1997. 

Richardson, John. A Life of Picasso. New York: Random House, 1996.

Schapiro, Meyer. The Unity of Picasso’s Art. New York: Geroge Braziller, 2000.

Spies, Werner. Picasso, the Sculptures. Ostfildern/Stuggart, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 
2000.

Staller, Natasha Elena. A Sum of Destructions: Picasso’s Cultures & Creation of Cubism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Open Access Journals in Visual Arts

WEB SITES 

Art History Network
http://www.arthistory.net/

Art Links on the World Wide Web (Boston College)
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/Artweb_frames.html

Artists.org
http://www.the-artists.org

Voice of the Shuttle 
http://vos.ucsb.edu

Updated 08/24/2007