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The Schemel Forum World Affairs Luncheon Seminar - A Foreigner Called Picasso

Tuesday, 28 March, 2023

Before Picasso became Picasso, he was contantly surveilled by the French polica. Amidst political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as an anarchist by the security services - the first of many entries in what would grow into an extensive case file. Though he soon emerged as the leader of the cubist avant-garde, Picasso's art was largely exluded from public collections in France for the next few decades. The genius who conceived Guernica as a visceral statement against fascism in 1937 was even denied French citizenship three years later, on the eve of the Nazi occupation, In a period encompassing the brutality of WWI, the Nazi occupation, and Cold War rivalries, Picasso strategized and fought to preserve his agency, eventually leaving Paris for good in 1955. He chose the south over the north, the provinces over the capital, and craftspeople over academicians, while simultaneously achieving widespread fame. The artist never became a citizen of France, yet he generously enriched and dynamized its culture like few other figues in the country's history. 

Annie Cohen-Solal, writer and social historian, Distinguished Professor at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy

Brennan Hall, Room 509, Rose Room

Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Contact:

Brooke Leonard

Phone: 570.941.4740
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Brennan Hall, Rose Room (509)

320 Madison Avenue
 Scranton, PA 18510