Wounded Bodies and Torn Canvas: Images of Life and Death in Hemingway and Picasso

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Boris Vejdovsky

The Seeming and the Seen: Essays in Modern Visual and Literary Culture, pp.319-341

2006

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Title: Wounded Bodies and Torn Canvas: Images of Life and Death in Hemingway and Picasso
Author/Creator: Boris Vejdovsky
Publication Details: The Seeming and the Seen: Essays in Modern Visual and Literary Culture, pp.319-341
Annotation: Discusses both Picasso s and Hemingway s fascination with pain, brutality, and sexuality, culminating in the corrida. Mentions briefly Hemingway heroes suffering from leg traumas reminiscent of thigh wounds suffered by bullfighters: Frederic Henry of A Farewell to Arms, Robert Jordan of For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Harry of The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Vejdovsky writes: Like Hemingway, Picasso concentrates on the mutilated body in pain, and like Hemingway, he combines this theme with an interrogation on masculinity, which reflects in both artists their conflicting relations with women.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter
Record Identifier: 991015131488303691