A new affordable survey of Picassos sculptural oeuvre with a focus on his endlessly inventive explorations of the bodyRepresentations of the body form the cornerstone of this major publication focusing on Picassos sculpture published for the first Spanish exhibition on this theme at the Museo Picasso in Mlaga and the Guggenheim Bilbao. Assembled by Carmen Gimnez the Museo Picasso Mlagas first director it includes a careful selection of sculptures that illustrates the tremendous plurality of styles in which Picasso explored and expanded forms of threedimensional representation of the human body.Picasso used all the materials at his disposal in his sculptureswood bronze iron cement steel and plastera fact that expresses the primacy of the medium for him. The human body likewise proved an enduring source of fascination and creative reinvention for the artist and his sculptural work ingeniously balances deformation and sensuality across the span of his prodigious career.