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: 9781350453524
• ISBN-10: 1350453528
• Artikelnr.: 70957582

Autorenporträt

Christopher Green is Emeritus Professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art, UK and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous volumes, including: Cubism and its Enemies (1987) which was the recipient of the Mitchell Prize for 20th Century art; Juan Gris (1993); Art in France, 1900-1940 (2000); Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' (2001); Picasso: Architecture and Vertigo (2005); Cubism and War: The Crystal in the Flame (2016).

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