![]() The overlooked importance of the light bulb-the only technological element in a vast repertoire of figures founded upon Antiquity, Alchemy, various mythologies and everyday items that took highly symbolic form in his portraiture, still lifes, and other genre scenes-is considered for the diachronic mode of its dispersal with respect to the specific contexts in which it is seen. This work is an extended analysis of electric light and depictions of the light bulb in Pablo Picasso’s oeuvre beginning with two cubist works from 19, and recurring with great significance in 1935, reaching a symbolic apogee in the masterpiece, Guernica, 1937, and thereafter granting its continued importance in war-time and post-war still lifes. ![]()
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