Biographic: Picasso: Great Lives in Graphic Form - Hardcover

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 40 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in an entirely visual way. The result is a quickfire journey of vivid snapshots that is the fastest way to follow in the footsteps of the men and women whose lives have most influenced our own. Each Biographic title is designed to be as entertaining as it is informative, both celebrating and interrogating our greatest artists, writers, politicians and scientists. Achievements are translated into data that can be plotted and assessed through beautiful images. Timelines not only pinpoint significant dates, but set them in the context and culture of their times. Dynamic maps locate biographical waymarks alongside other points of interest. Flow-charts and bubble-diagrams depict working processes and styles, and the size of achievements. Biographics blend the essential with the trivial. They paint portraits by numbers, which you seem to learn with your eyes and not your brain. And they build into a colour-coded library in which corresponding infographics can be compared and contrasted. Packed with facts, they are the essential guides to the paths that led to greatness.