Christopher Green

Cubism and Reality

Braque, Picasso, Gris

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Produktbeschreibung

"Lavishly illustrated and filled with rich new insights that are the product of decades' worth of research, Cubism and Reality challenges the commonly-held view of Cubism as either a retreat from reality into abstraction, arguing instead that Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Juan Gris wanted to find ways of intensifying and expanding painting's capacity to give viewers more, not less, of their lived experience of the world. It explores how Cubist artworks ask us to reflect on visual art's relationship to everyday visual experience, tackling a fundamental issue that has preoccupied artists and critics for over a century: the survival of hand-made representational artworks in the epoch of photography, film and, in the present age, digital reproduction"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350453531
• ISBN-10: 1350453536
• Artikelnr.: 70955601

Autorenporträt

Christopher Green

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Translations
Introduction: Cubism Now
1. A Last Stand for Painting: Georges Braque and John Golding; Pablo
Picasso and Roy Lichtenstein
Beginning at the End
Numbers
With and Against Post-1945 "Modern Art"
Picasso's Painter and his Model Series and Roy Lichtenstein's "Idiot"
Picassos
Braque's Studios and the "Reality of Space"
The Distance between Cubism and Modern Art after 1960
2. The Act of Seeing: The Early Cubism of Braque, Picasso and Gris
Going beyond Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Analytical Cubism?
Learning-by-doing: Braque's Cubist Beginnings
Learning-by-doing: Picasso's Cubist Beginnings
Juan Gris Joins In
3. Learning to See Again: Braque and Picasso Before Collage, 1910-12
Unknown Masterpieces
Re-start
Failure?
Braque, "L'infinition" and an Invitation with Picasso to Wonderland
Success? Looking and Seeing
Light and the Immaterial
4. Simple Facts? The Arrival of Collage: Gris, Picasso, Braque
Juan Gris's Critique and the Discovery of Collage
Braque and Picasso: The First Papiers Collés - Drawing with Papers,
Sketching in Air
Picasso and Braque: From Drawing to Making New Things
Juan Gris: Collage and Interrogative Painting
Braque and Picasso: What Can Be for Ever?
5. Postscript: Dada, Classic Realism, Cubism: Francis Picabia versus
Picasso
Notes
Index