Dimensions
173 x 246 x 26mm
Cubism was the first fundamental re-evaluation since the Renaissance of what artists should record in their works of art and how they should do it. The movement originated in Paris between 1906 and 1908 and was the creation of Picasso and Braque, a Spaniard and a Frenchman. Within four years the pictorial methods and technical innovations of these two young painters had been seized on by other artists across Europe and America, making Cubism the most influential movement in Western art in the first half of the twentieth century.
This book was first published in 1971 to accompany a now legendary exhibition curated by the author at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This re-issue of the book not only presents a compelling record of an epoch-making show, but provides an authoritative, informative and lively introduction to all aspects of Cubist art by its foremost historian.
Includes colour and black-and-white illustrations.
