Cubism in the Shadow of War

Cubism in the Shadow of War

By :"David Cottington"
Published on 1998 by Yale University Press

Category :"Art"

This groundbreaking book provides a major reassessment of the history and significance of cubism. David Cottington examines the cubist movement and sets it within the complex political, economic, and cultural forces of pre-World War I France. Cubism, as a part of the Parisian artistic avant-garde, played an integral role in the turbulent Belle Epoque. The author focuses on cubisms relation to the particular discourses--of nationalism, aestheticism, gender, the social purpose of art--that gave meaning to the experience of modernity in Paris in the decade before the war. In Part I of the book, the author discusses the \

Lenght : 258

Language : en

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