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 ...
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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 collaboration 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-coll???s 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.
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Textual illustrations. Some minor rubbing. VG. 26x19cm, viii, 258 pp. Contents: Gathering Shadows: Conflicts & Contradictions of the Radical Republic; A Bold Aesthetic Band; Discourses & Debates; Constructions of Cubism: Cubist Painting & the Discourse of Nationalism; Collage & Counter-Discourse: Aestheticism & the 'Popular'; Between Theory & Practice: The Meaning of Cubism; Cubism & Decoration: Tradition & Modernity.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book 260 pages 102 illustrations 57 in color. Some fading to the dustjacket, cover and spine along with a price sticker to the back now protected with a Mylar cover. Light foxing along the edges. Notes. Selected Bibliography.
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VG/VG. Red boards with blue spine lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with navy lettering. viii, 258 pp. BW and color illustrations. 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 for the first time on cubism's relation to the particular discourses of nationalism, aestheticism, gender, the social purpose of art-that gave meanings to the experience of modernity in Paris in the decade before the war. -Jacket.
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Hbk, small 4to 258pp, illustr throughout in color and b+w, an unread copy, excellent clean tight and unmarked in fine, unclipped and sleeve-protected dj, as newexcellent as new.
