A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906-1914 - Softcover

Antliff, Mark; Leighten, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226021106 ISBN 13: 9780226021102

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2008

Synopsis

With radical formal innovations that scandalized the European art world, cubism revolutionized modern art and opened the path toward pure abstraction. Documenting the first heady years of this profoundly influential movement, A Cubism Reader presents the most comprehensive collection of cubist primary sources ever compiled for English-language publication.
            This definitive anthology covers the historical genesis of cubism from 1906 to 1914, with documents that range from manifestos and poetry to exhibition prefaces and reviews to articles that address the cultural, political, and philosophical issues related to the movement. Most of the texts Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten have selected are from French sources, but their inclusion of carefully culled German, English, Czech, Italian, and Spanish documents speaks to the international reach of cubist art and ideas. Equally wide-ranging are the writers represented—a group that includes Guillaume Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia, André Salmon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Le Fauconnier, and many others.
            These diverse selections—unabridged and freshly translated—represent a departure from the traditional view of cubism as shaped almost exclusively by Picasso and Braque. Augmented by Antliff and Leighten’s insightful commentary on each entry, as well as many of the articles’ original illustrations, A Cubism Reader ultimately broadens the established history of the movement by examining its monumental contributions from a variety of contemporary perspectives.

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About the Authors

Mark Antliff is professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. He is coauthor with Patrician Leighten of Cubism and Culture.


Patricia Leighten is professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. She is the coauthors with Mark Antliff of Cubism and Culture.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226021106
• ISBN 13: 9780226021102
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608