Spanish Dialogues on Picasso

This book offers a critical, multidisciplinary, and innovative approach to the work of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). International museum and university scholars, experts on Spanish art and cultural history, discuss the continuities and breaches in Picasso's own artistic practice in relation to Spanish art history, covering the representation of gender in his work and its continuity with the Western tradition until the present day; previously overlooked iconographical takeovers from pre-1800 Spanish artists; the relevance of national identity during his exile; the reception of Picasso in Spain during Francoism and the first years of democracy, and the use of language(s) when talking about Picasso and his work.

• Reexamining Picasso through fresh academic insight

María López-Fanjul y Díez del Corral is Director and CEO of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias in Spain. She studied Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Florence, Museum Management at the City University of London, and gained her PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She has held curatorial positions at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, and the Bode Museum in Berlin. She has published on European art from the 15th to 21st century, as well as on the relevance of outreach in the context of the scholarly work of museum curators. She has curated the following exhibitions, among others: El Siglo de Oro. The Era Velázquez) (Gemäldegalerie, 2016) and Spanish Dialogues. Picasso Works from the Museum Berggruen Visit the Bode Museum) (Bode Museum, 2023).