Picasso Rewriting Picasso

If Picasso is remembered for one thing, he is remembered as the Modernist artist most closely allied to the image. What, then, explains the artist's turn from the visual in 1935 to express himself almost exclusively in writing? Picasso Rewriting Picasso explores Picasso's extraordinary relationship to the image through his powerful and provocative body of writings in Spanish and French, some 340 poetic texts and the plays Desire Caught by the Tail, The Four Little Girls and The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.