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Author Cottington, David.

Title Cubism / David Cottington
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Description 80 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Movements in modern art
Movements in modern art (Cambridge, England)
Summary Cubism, perhaps the seminal movement for the arts of the twentieth century, was also one of the most complex. Divided between the annual public exhibition and the emerging network of private galleries, between French and immigrant artists, it was also the product of the decade before the outbreak of war in 1914. Behind the cliched image of 'la belle epoque,' France was torn by inter-class and international tensions, caught between excitement over the experience of modernity and anxiety about its consequences. David Cottington describes how the artistic avant-garde, and Cubism within it, were formed by that turbulent and complex moment. Analysing paintings by Picasso, Braque, Robert and Sonia Delaunay and their associates, he traces their exploration of the conventions of pictorial representation in the interests both of reflection of the experience of modernity, and of critical resistance to its seductions
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 78) and index
Subject Cubism -- France.
Painting, French -- 20th century.
Painting, French.
Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- France.
LC no. 98020439
ISBN 0521646103 (paperback)