When Harry Met Pablo
Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art
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Pat Grimes
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Matthew Algeo
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Harry Truman and Pablo Picasso were contemporaries and were both shaped by and shapers of the great events of the twentieth century—the man who painted Guernica and the man who authorized the use of atomic bombs against civilians.
But in most ways, they couldn’t have been more different. Picasso was a communist, and probably the only thing Truman hated more than communists was modern art. Picasso was an indifferent father, a womanizer, and a millionaire. Truman was utterly devoted to his family and, despite his fame, far from a rich man. How did they come to be shaking hands in front of Picasso’s studio in the south of France?
Truman’s meeting with Picasso was quietly arranged by Alfred H. Barr Jr., the founding director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and an early champion of Picasso. Barr knew that if he could convince these two ideological antipodes, the straight-talking politician from Missouri and the Cubist painter from Málaga, to simply shake hands, it would send a powerful message, not just to reactionary Republicans pushing McCarthyism at home but to the whole world: modern art was not evil.
A rigorous history with a heartwarming center, When Harry Met Pablo intertwines the biographies of Truman and Picasso, the history of modern art, and twentieth-century American politics, but at its core, it is the touching story of two old men who meet for the first time and realize they have more in common—and are more alike—than they ever imagined.
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- Roberta W
- 2024-06-24
Really rather good
I’m a Picasso fan, but admittedly not inclined to learn the biography of a US President at the moment, but I thought how these two lives would intersect would be interesting. The meeting itself was only a few hours long, and it does take most of the book to get there, but the context leading up to it was well set. Perhaps what I got most out of the book was an appreciation for just how much backlash there was in the US over modern art, and Picasso, at the Armoury Show, and beyond… all the rhetoric about communism and fear around modern art ran deeper than I had understood. With that in mind, I understood the intent behind arranging this public meeting. A good listen for history geeks.
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