Matching Masterpieces with History’s Flash Points

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/18/ar...on/18stan.html

Picasso’s tale begins in his Paris studio in 1941, with the image of jackboots stomping up a staircase. Simon Schama recounts the story, perhaps apocryphal, of a Nazi who barged in and poked around, picking up a postcard-size reproduction of "Guernica."

The German officer said, "Did you do this?" Picasso replied, "Oh, no, you did."

[Ali Infree]

Is it just me or does Simon Schama always seem to figure very large in the history he tells?

Before the replies start to waft in, I do understand how important context is. For a historian, the stories they tell always say something about the historian and their time as well. So, if there are primary sources that support a particular view then we can judge the work based on facts and analysis of the historian.

Ali "too much monkey business" Infree