Description |
viii, 258 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
Contents |
Pt. 1: Gathering Shadows. 1. Conflicts and Contradictions of the Radical Republic. 2. A Bold Aesthetic Band. 3. Discourses and Debates -- Pt. 2: Constructions of Cubism. 4. Cubist Painting and the Discourse of Nationalism. 5. Collage and Counter-Discourse: Aestheticism and the 'Popular'. 6. Between Theory and Practice: The Meanings of Cubism. 7. Cubism and Decoration: Tradition and Modernity |
Summary |
This groundbreaking book provides a major reassessment of the history and significance of cubism. David Cottington examines the cubist movement and sets it within the complex political, economic and cultural forces of pre-World War I France. Cubism, as a part of the Parisian artistic avant-garde, played an integral role in the turbulent 'Belle Epoque'. The author focuses for the first time on cubism's relation to the particular discourses of nationalism, aestheticism, gender, the social purpose of art - that gave meanings to the experience of modernity in Paris in the decade before the war |
Notes |
Erratum slip inserted |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Arts -- France -- Paris.
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Arts, French -- France -- Paris -- 20th century.
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Arts, French -- France -- Paris.
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- France -- Paris.
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Cubism -- France -- Paris.
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LC no. |
98015163 |
ISBN |
0300075294 (cloth) |
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