Cubism
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Guillaume Apollinaire, Dorothea Eimert
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Cubism
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Parkstone-International
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9781780428000
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines - with this work, Picasso revolutionised the entire history of painting. Cubism was thus born in 1907. Transforming natural forms into cylinders and cubes, painters like Juan Gris and Robert Delaunay, led by Braque and Picasso, imposed a new vision upon the world that was in total opposition to the principles of the Impressionists. Largely diffused in Europe, Cubism developed rapidly in successive phases that brought art history to all the richness of the 20th century: from the futurism of Boccioni to the abstraction of Kandinsky, from the suprematism of Malevich to the constructivism of Tatlin. Linking the core text of Guillaume Apollinaire with the studies of Dr. Dorothea Eimert, this work offers a new interpretation of modernity's crucial moment, and permits the reader to rediscover, through their biographies, the principal representatives of the movement.
Contents
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Aesthetic Meditations onPainting: The Cubist Paintersby Guillaume Apollinaire
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What Is Cubism?
29
The Analysis of Form
29
Picasso, Braque and the “Popular” Image
30
Collage
41
Simultaneity in Cubist Circles
41
Picasso and Cubism
47
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: Breaking with the Past
47
A New Pictorial Language
51
Poetic Metaphor
57
Subjectivity
68
Surreality or Sculpture in Painting
77
Polarisation of Semantics
87
Psychological Reality
99
Synthetic Cubism
110
Picasso’s Mysticism
121
Major Artists
127
Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 1881 – Mougins, 1973)
129
Georges Braque (Argenteuil-sur-Seine, 1882 – Paris, 1963)
135
Fernand Léger (Argentan, 1881 – Gif-sur-Yvette, 1955)
143
Juan Gris (Madrid, 1887 – Boulogne-Billancourt, 1927)
149
Marcel Duchamp (Balinville, 1887 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1968)
155
Jacques Villon (Damville, 1875 – Puteaux, 1963)
161
Jacques Lipchitz (Druskieniki, 1891 – Capri, 1973)
165
Raymond Duchamp-Villon (Damville, 1876 – Cannes, 1918)
169
Henri Laurens (Paris, 1885 – 1954)
173
Alexander Archipenko (Kiev, 1887 – New York, 1964)
177
Jean Metzinger (Nantes, 1883 – Paris, 1956)
181
Albert Gleizes (Paris, 1881 – Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1953)
185
Robert and Sonia Delaunay (Paris, 1885 – Montpelier, 1941 and Gradiesk, 1885 – Paris, 1979)
189
Henri Le Fauconnier (Hesdin, 1881 – Paris, 1946)
193
Notes
194
Bibliography
195
Index
196
