Guernica reinterpreted

To: Retort
From: TJC

[Tim sends us a link to the audio recording of his final lecture at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, as the 2009 Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts. Centered on a group of paintings by Picasso from the 1920s, the series of six lectures traces the artist's path to Guernica. IB] 

Picasso and Truth, Part 6: Mural 
In this audio podcast of the sixth and final lecture, originally delivered at the National Gallery of Art on May 3, 2009,  T. J. Clark reflects on the place of Guernica in Picasso's repeated attempts to escape from the intimacy and containment of cubism, and to expose his painting to everything in the new century that threatened to make that "interior" a thing of the past.

Audio podcasts of Picasso and Truth, Parts 1-5: Object, Room, Window, Monster, and Monument are also available online.  Go to <www.nga.gov/casva>.