by Ephraim Kishon · Langen Muller · tapa dura · ISBN 9783784421025
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«Picasso war kein Scharlatan» is Ephraim Kishon's satirical farce about modern art, published by Langen Müller in hardcover (175 pages, in German).
The book includes the farce «Zieh den Stecker raus, das Wasser kocht», about a young painter who, while trying to make tea, is discovered as an abstract artist, and an ironic survey of modern art with reproductions of old and modern masterpieces. Kishon satirizes the excesses of contemporary creation and maintains that Picasso was not a charlatan.
The book is subtitled «Randbemerkungen zur modernen Kunst» and is presented as a farce with a prologue, epilogue and 80 reproductions of masterpieces, modern and old.
A read for those who enjoy satire and criticism of contemporary art.
Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter and film director (1924–2005)
