{"product_id":"9781847498021","title":"The Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by the Tail","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecond-Hand\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExcellent condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the 1940s, Picasso wrote two plays in French - the first, Desire Caught by the Tail, was conceived during the German occupation of Paris and features a cast of grotesque allegorical characters such as the Onion, Silence or Fat Anxiety discussing the crucial wartime themes of hunger, cold and love.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second, The Four Little Girls, came about a few years after the end of the war on the French Riviera, and presents the stream-of-consciousness thoughts of four unnamed girls in a vegetable garden, revealing an unexpectedly evil aspect of childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese surreal compositions, which were meant to be read aloud rather than formally staged, are a testament to the great artist's imaginative powers, and have been considered as forerunners to the theatre of the absurd of the 1950s, as exemplified by Beckett, Ionesco and Adamov.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis volume also contains the accompanying illustrations by Picasso himself.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781847498021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 128\u003cbr\u003ePublished: 07-01-2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pablo Picasso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42778642940073,"sku":"9781847498021","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/products\/9781847498021.jpg?v=1669692243","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/9781847498021","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}