Cubism and Culture (World of Art)

Cubism and Culture (World of Art)
- Cubism's Formal Innovations Linked to French Society: A Balanced Perspective
- Cubism's Roots in Primitivism and Race: A Comprehensive Analysis
- Gender's Role in Cubism: Conceptual and Practical
- Collage's Cultural Interplay in Cubism
- Cubism's Cultural Politics: Influenced by Anarchism, Nationalism, and Pacifism
"This is a book whose great achievement is to bring out the importance of the Cubists in a history far bigger than the history of art."â€”Christopher Green, Courtauld Institute of Art
Often considered to be the seminal art movement of the twentieth century, Cubism initiated a pictorial revolution through its radical approach to image making, invention of the new media of collage and sculptural assemblage, and evolution toward pure abstraction. Scholarly yet accessible, Cubism and Culture reveals these profound formal innovations as integrally related to changes in French society. The authors first examine the movement's origins in primitivism and its engagement with issues of race and colonialism, and then consider the Cubists' responses to anti-Enlightenment philosophies, the relation of Cubist art to the "classical," the role played by gender conceptually and within particular careers and practices, collage and its interplay with cultural themes, and the impact of anarchism, nationalism, and pacifism on Cubism's cultural politics. This comprehensive and fresh examination of Cubism in its wider contextâ€”social, cultural, political, scientific, and philosophicalâ€”covers the full range of art and artists from the movement's advent in 1908.

Among the artists included: Alexander Archipenko, Maria Blanchard, Georges Braque, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, AndrÃ© Derain, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Alice Halicka, Roger de La Fresnaye, Marie Laurencin, Henri Laurens, Henri Le Fauconnier, Fernand LÃ©ger, Jacques Lipchitz, Louis Marcoussis, Frans Masereel, Jean Metzinger, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso. 182 illustrations, 54 in color
Country USA
Brand Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer Thames & Hudson
Binding Paperback
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2001-11-17
Size 21.0 x 15.0 cm
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780500203422

Country	USA
Brand	Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer	Thames & Hudson
Binding	Paperback
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2001-11-17
Size	21.0 x 15.0 cm
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780500203422

Cubism and Culture (World of Art)

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