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Undead Picasso: Eating Art's Brains!

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PROJECT STATUS [?]: This book has been proposed as a project and is now seeking team members. Using the links at left, apply to join the team and help make this book happen. No artist has had as profound an impact on the course of art history, nor has displayed such persistent output and influence as artist Pablo Picasso. Undead Picasso: Eating Art's Brains is the story of this conquest. For Picasso, what we thought we knew about perspective, the single-point we felt to be most dear, was just the delicious, juicy gray matter of our art-historical brains from which this brash young Spaniard would feast. And once initially sated, in the dark, dank, wee hours of the 20th Century, the artist would put brush to canvas and touch off a revolution in art and a torrent of his own artistic output that wouldn't stop for some seventy years and to this day, nearly four decades after his death, still gnaws at us. Undead Picasso: Eating Art's Brains is a proposal for a book not yet written. We are looking for an author, or authors to take on the task. It might be a new biography, it might be a series of essays, it might be a mash-up in the style of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies or Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. You tell us. The only thing for certain is that it will be good, it will be unrelenting and it will be terrifying, just like the artist himself. Publisher's Note This project proposal stems from this off-hand Twitter exchange between @bookavore from WORD bookstore, Brooklyn, @Bookdwarf from Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, and ourselves: @bookavore Hey publishers, so you know, I am basically vetoing all vampire & zombie books on principle at this point. @Bookdwarf Agreed. Get off the vampire/zombie bandwagon publishers! My personal fav was gay zombie erotica. @holartbooks So I should halt publication of Undead Picasso: Eating Art's Brains?! @Bookdwarf Ooh, no. I'd like to see that one! So, here you go. And though yes, it's unlikely to see the light of print, if someone out there can actually come up with a viable text (and our vote would be for something in the horror-pulp-non-fiction genre) we'd totally publish it. Just couldn't count on WORD carrying it in their store.