* DYLAN - PICASSO

    The first three decades in the lives of Bob Dylan and Pablo Picasso follow strikingly similar trajectories. Arriving, aged nineteen, at the cultural epicentre of their eras - Paris in the Belle Époque for Picasso, and 1960s New York City for Dylan - both artist’s early struggles, bohemian excesses, lovers, friends and influences are identified and explored. Even as their fame increases so does their refusal to compromise their radical vision and reinventions.
    Setting their songs and paintings side by side reveals further striking correspondences. Dylan’s Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall is set beside Picasso’s La Vie (Life) and Mr Tambourine Man related to Picasso’s sublime Family of Saltimbanques (The Acrobats).
    This comprehensively researched, insightful yet entertaining study is further enhanced by the author’s wry accounts of how Dylan and Picasso influenced his own life as he came of age during the nineteen-sixties.

- MEMORY, FATE & COINCIDENCE, by James Charnley, i2i Publishing 2026, 261 pages, paperback.
ISBN 9781914933097

Thank you to Jürgen Wasser for this item. [1026]

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