1. Huffington, A; Picasso – Creator & Destroyer; Pan Books, 1988. It is the astonishing and bitterly controversial portrait of the 20th century’s greatest artist. From his earliest teenage obsessions to the nightmare truth behind his final years, it reveals as never before the tragedy of a man incapable of love: a man who expressed his passion in art and the bizarre humilation of the woman – and men – who fall victim to his uniquely powerful spirit. The book changed the world’s view of the man who changed our view ...