Fall Arts Preview

Here comes fall, earnest and urgent, whispering of Important Books and Movies in Oscar Contention and Controversial Art Exhibitions. TIME'S editors and critics have put together two lists of fall arrivals: the releases that seem to be attracting the biggest amount of attention (and we freely admit that this is not a scientifically measurable criterion) and the releases that our critics are most eagerly anticipating

A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932

By John Richardson; 608 pages, November

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One of the great intellectual undertakings of our time has been John Richardson's multivolume biography of Pablo Picasso. Richardson, who knew the artist personally, has parsed the issues of Picasso's rich life and nimble art more thoroughly than anyone before him. Eleven years after Vol. II, the third installment arrives in November. A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (Knopf; 608 pages), picks up the story with the 35-year-old Picasso's courtship of his first wife, the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova. For a time, he attempts a life of bourgeois propriety at home and neoclassicism in his art (which he alternates with continuing exercises in Cubism). But in 1927, the restless and ever tumescent artist meets and beds 17-year-old Marie-Thérèse Walter. Their passionate affair throws his marriage into turmoil, even as it floods his art with lush new signs for pleasure and fulfillment. Richardson leads us through the grand story with energy, wit and authority.

— RICHARD LACAYO

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