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Cubism and its histories /

By: Series: Critical perspectives in art historyPublication details: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, ©2004.Description: xviii, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0719050049
  • 9780719050046
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N6848.5.C82 C67 2004
Contents:
Discourses -- Cubism, the avant-garde and the liberal Republic -- Languages of classicism -- Changing perspectives: modernolatry and simultaneity -- 'High' and 'low' -- The cubist movement: from consolidation to dissolution -- Reading -- Building high modernism: the 'analytic-synthetic' paradigm -- Other criteria -- Other stories: cubism and 'new art history'
Summary: Cubism was the most influential artistic movement that emerged in the twentieth century. Yet just what cubism was, or stood for, at the time of its emergence is still in dispute, while the explanations offered for its importance for twentieth century art, and its legacy for the present, are bewildering in their variety. This book offers a way beyond this confusion: a narrative of its beginnings, consolidation and dissemination that takes into account not only what the style and the movement signified at the time of its emergence but also the principal writings through which cubism's significance for modernism has been established.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-299) and index.

Discourses -- Cubism, the avant-garde and the liberal Republic -- Languages of classicism -- Changing perspectives: modernolatry and simultaneity -- 'High' and 'low' -- The cubist movement: from consolidation to dissolution -- Reading -- Building high modernism: the 'analytic-synthetic' paradigm -- Other criteria -- Other stories: cubism and 'new art history'

Cubism was the most influential artistic movement that emerged in the twentieth century. Yet just what cubism was, or stood for, at the time of its emergence is still in dispute, while the explanations offered for its importance for twentieth century art, and its legacy for the present, are bewildering in their variety. This book offers a way beyond this confusion: a narrative of its beginnings, consolidation and dissemination that takes into account not only what the style and the movement signified at the time of its emergence but also the principal writings through which cubism's significance for modernism has been established.

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