Tabla de Contenidos: “…Islands in the oeuvre -- Childhood: a strategy of beginning -- The early years and the Blue Period -- Joyless children -- The child as symbol -- "There was never any more inception than there is now" -- The disguises of the Rose Period -- Primitivism and childhood -- Cubism: the search for a world without childhood -- The motif returns -- Neoclassicism and stylistic pluralism -- The courtly portrait of his firstborn -- Private life and mythological projections -- The dead children: Guernica and the Charnel House -- The limits of representation --…”