Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0834300060, Paperback)

A dynamic portrait of the supremely diverse life and career of THE great 20th-century artist: reveals Picasso as painter, sculptor, ceramicist, collage artist, set designer, and creator of "chance objects," as well as father, lover, husband, friend, author, pack rat, and art collector in his own right. Picasso's place within the Modernist movement brilliantly analyzed.