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Cubism in the Shadow of War: The Avant-Garde and Politics in Paris, 1905-1914

Door David Cottington

Categorie	Schilderkunst
Boeknummer	#312349-KL16
Titel	Cubism in the Shadow of War: The Avant-Garde and Politics in Paris, 1905-1914
Auteur	Cottington, David
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1998
ISBN10	0300075294
ISBN13	9780300075298
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, dust jacket, (full page) illustrations in colour and b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting	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 cubism`s 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 "cubist conjuncture," the years that followed the collapse of the Bloc des Gauches. The Bloc, more than a parliamentary alliance, represented an effort of collabo... (Lees verder)ration between the liberal middle class and sectors of the working class led by Parisian intellectuals and artists (future cubists among them). In the wake of the Bloc`s failure, workers withdrew into trade unionism and artists into aesthetic avant-gardism. Cottington analyzes this consolidation of the artistic avant-garde, its relation to the expanding dealer-centered art market, and the dominant and counter discourses of the day. In Part II, he considers specific aspects of cubist art and the cubist movement? from the conservative modernism of the paintings of Le Fauconnier and Gleizes to the aestheticism of Picasso`s papiers-collés to the collective architectural and interior design project of the "cubist house." These examples and others, Cottington concludes, reveal cubism as a contradictory and unstable constellation of interests and practices, sometimes complicit with dominant social and political forces, sometimes opposed to them, but in every case shaped by them.
Pagina's	258
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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