Cubism
Author(s): Neil Cox
This is an introduction to cubism, the movement often seen as the single most important development in the history of 20th-century art. The book offers an account of the origins of the style in the dialogue between Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso between 1907 and 1914. It traces cubism's evolution in the work of these two artists as well as Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, Robert Delaunay, Andre Derain, Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger and many others. The book situates cubism in the context of its times, and shows how it penetrated artistic activity far beyond painting and sculpture, reinvigorating architecture, graphic design, music and poetry, and transforming the possibilities of photography and film.
Product Information
Before Cubism - Paris and the art world in 1900; Buffalo Bill meets Wilbur Wright - Braque, Picasso and photography; the wild men of Paris? Braque and Picasso 1907-1910; salon Cubism - avant-gardism and mondernity; from the golden section to the Cubist house -Cubism, philosophy and science; "the world as such" - Cubism and language, summer 1910-September 1912; a glass of absinthe - collage, "papier colles" and constructions 1912-1914; "drawing in space" -Cubist sculpture; war and order - Cubism and Classicism; the ways of Cubism - from abstraction to architecture.
General Fields
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- : Phaidon Press Limited
- : Phaidon Press Ltd
- : 0.907
- : 01 October 2000
- : 220mm X 160mm X 24mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 October 2000
- : books
Special Fields
- : Neil Cox
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 709.04032
- : good
- : 448
- : 200 colour and 50 b&w illustrations, glossary, biographies, key dates, further reading, maps, index
