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Book The Cubist Cosmos

Download or read book The Cubist Cosmos written by Brigitte Léal and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Cubist Cosmos' traces the development of Cubsm between 1907 and 1917. The publciation reveals the boundless innovative power of the works of Pablo Picasso and Geoprges Braque. it also shows how the Cubist pictorial language was received and advanced by the artists of the Parisian avant-garde--such as Fernand Léger and Sonia Delaunay--and how it evolved into the colourful large-format pictures. The volume reflects not only the enormous range of this stylistic direction but also its revolutionary potential, which went on to influence the further development of twentieth-century art.

Book L  once Rosenberg   s Cubism

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  • Author : Giovanni Casini
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2023-08-31
  • ISBN : 0271096020
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book L once Rosenberg s Cubism written by Giovanni Casini and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of modernism has generally been written as a story of artists and their creations alongside the collectors, gallerists, and curators who supported them. This is especially true of Cubism, where the received narrative centers on a tightly circumscribed group of artists and agents connected to the dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Léonce Rosenberg’s Cubism shakes up the canon, revealing its artificial nature and pointing to a different, more inclusive understanding of the development of Cubism. Kahnweiler’s Cubism was narrowly focused. In contrast, Giovanni Casini shows us, the influential art dealer Léonce Rosenberg bought virtually any piece that could be labeled “Cubist” and proposed a radically different understanding of the movement. At Rosenberg’s Galerie L’Effort Moderne in Paris, artists such as Joseph Csáky, Auguste Herbin, Jean Metzinger, Diego Rivera, Gino Severini, and Georges Valmier were accorded the same treatment as Pablo Picasso or Georges Braque. In this book, Casini considers Rosenberg’s contribution to the history of Cubism, reflecting on the ways in which artistic movements are manufactured—and interpretive paradigms adopted. Deftly weaving biography with a scholarly analysis built on extensive archival research, Léonce Rosenberg’s Cubism is a fresh look at the history of interwar modernism and the definitive study of a figure who has been unjustly sidelined in the history of art. It will be compulsory reading for scholars of Cubism and Modernism.

Book A cosmos of my own

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN : 9781617033377
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book A cosmos of my own written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1981 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exploring the Invisible

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  • Author : Lynn Gamwell
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 0691121125
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Exploring the Invisible written by Lynn Gamwell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sumptuous and stunningly illustrated book shows through words and images how directly, profoundly, and indisputably modern science has transformed modern art. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, a strange and exciting new world came into focus--a world of microorganisms in myriad shapes and colors, prehistoric fossils, bizarre undersea creatures, spectrums of light and sound, molecules of water, and atomic particles. Exploring the Invisible reveals that the world beyond the naked eye--made visible by advances in science--has been a major inspiration for artists ever since, influencing the subjects they choose as well as their techniques and modes of representation. Lynn Gamwell traces the evolution of abstract art through several waves, beginning with Romanticism. She shows how new windows into telescopic and microscopic realms--combined with the growing explanatory importance of mathematics and new definitions of beauty derived from science--broadly and profoundly influenced Western art. Art increasingly reflected our more complex understanding of reality through increasing abstraction. For example, a German physiologist's famous demonstration that color is not in the world but in the mind influenced Monet's revolutionary painting with light. As the first wave of enthusiasm for science crested, abstract art emerged in Brussels and Munich. By 1914, it could be found from Moscow to Paris. Throughout the book are beautiful images from both science and art--some well known, others rare--that reveal the scientific sources mined by Impressionist and Symbolist painters, Art Nouveau sculptors and architects, Cubists, and other nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists. With a foreword by astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson, Exploring the Invisible appears in an age when both artists and scientists are exploring the deepest meanings of life, consciousness, and the universe.

Book Modern

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  • Author : Philip Hook
  • Publisher : The Experiment
  • Release : 2022-04-19
  • ISBN : 1615198679
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book Modern written by Philip Hook and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exploration of the revolutionary birth of Modern art in the tumultuous decade brought to a shattering close by WWI"--

Book War and the Cosmos in Picasso s Texts  1936 1940

Download or read book War and the Cosmos in Picasso s Texts 1936 1940 written by Lydia Gasman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vert ciel ciel ciel ciel vert vert ciel ciel ciel ciel noir vert vert ciel marron ciel ciel ciel noir noir noir noir blanc blanc noir vert marron ciel ciel cahce dans ses poches ses mains la nuit ciel aloes fleur ciel cobalt de corde livre de chevet ciel Coeur eventual violet ciel robe de soir bouquet de violettes violet violet ciel Pierre de lune ciel noir vert ciel marron roué de fue d'artifice perle ciel noir jaune vert citronnier noir ciseaux ombre jaune neige vert marron crème remplie d'eau-de-vie un vol de canaries bleu vert noir loup ciel ciel ciel jaune linge brodé vert nuit ciel soufre blanc plat d'argent terre labourée ciel ciel blane ciel ciel ciel blanc ciel ciel ciel ciel blanc blanc ciel bleu bleu bleu

Book Faulkner and Postmodernism

Download or read book Faulkner and Postmodernism written by John N. Duvall and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s, William Faulkner, Mississippi's most famous author, has been recognized as a central figure of international modernism. But might Faulkner's fiction be understood in relation to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow as well as James Joyce's Ulysses? In eleven essays from the 1999 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held at the University of Mississippi, Faulkner and Postmodernism examines William Faulkner and his fiction in light of postmodern literature, culture, and theory. The volume explores the variety of ways Faulkner's art can be used to measure similarities and differences between modernism and postmodernism. Essays in the collection fall into three categories: those that use Faulkner's novels as a way to mark a period distinction between modernism and postmodernism, those that see postmodern tendencies in Faulkner's fiction, and those that read Faulkner through the lens of postmodern theory's contemporary legacy, the field of cultural studies. In order to make their particular arguments, essays in the collection compare Faulkner to more contemporary novelists such as Ralph Ellison, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Walker Percy, Richard Ford, Toni Morrison, and Kathy Acker. But not all of the comparisons are to high culture artists, since even Elvis Presley becomes Faulkner's foil in one of the essays. A variety of theoretical perspectives frame the work in this volume, from Fredric Jameson's pessimistic sense of postmodernism's possibilities to Linda Hutcheon's conviction that cultural critique can continue in postmodernism through innovative new forms such as metafiction. Despite the different theoretical premises and distinct conclusions of the individual authors of these essays, Faulkner and Postmodernism proves once again that in the key debates surrounding twentieth-century fiction, Faulkner is a crucial figure. John N. Duvall, an associate professor of English at Purdue University, is the editor of Modern Fiction Studies. Ann J. Abadie is associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.

Book Cubism and the Trompe l   Oeil Tradition

Download or read book Cubism and the Trompe l Oeil Tradition written by Emily Braun and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age-old tradition of pictorial illusionism known as trompe l’oeil (“deceive the eye”) employs visual tricks that confound the viewer’s perception of reality and fiction, truth and falsehood. This radically new take on Cubism shows how Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris both parodied and paid homage to classic trompe l’oeil themes and motifs. The authors connect Cubist works to trompe l’oeil specialists of earlier centuries by juxtaposing more than one hundred Cubist paintings, drawings, and collages with related compositions by old masters. The informed and engaging texts trace the changing status of trompe l’oeil over the centuries, reveal Braque’s training in artisanal trompe l’oeil techniques as an integral part of his Cubist practice, examine the material used in Gris’s collages, and discuss the previously unstudied trompe l’oeil iconography within Cubist still lifes.

Book Faulkner s Short Fiction

Download or read book Faulkner s Short Fiction written by James Ferguson and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive overview of William Faulkner's short fiction is a systematic study of this body of work, which Faulkner produced over a period of forty years. The author examines Faulkner's struggle to master the special problems posed by the genre. The book is organized topically. A chronological survey of Faulkner's career as a writer of short fiction is followed by chapters devoted to aspects of Faulkner's craft: thematic patterns, points of view, and other technical and formal patterns. The author offers a frank assessment of Faulkner's failures and successes as a writer of short fiction.

Book William Faulkner

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  • Author : James G. Watson
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2013-12-06
  • ISBN : 0292757883
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book William Faulkner written by James G. Watson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his life and writings, William Faulkner continually created and "performed" selves. Even in letters, he often played a part—gentleman dandy, soldier, farmer—while in his fictions these and other personae are counterpoised against one another to create a world of controlled chaos, made in Faulkner's own protean image and reflective of his own multiple sense of self. In this groundbreaking book, James Watson draws on the entire Faulkner canon, including letters and photographs, to decipher the complicated ways in which Faulkner put himself forth as the artist he felt himself to be through written performances and displays based on the life he actually lived and the ones he imagined living. The topics Watson treats include the overtly performative aspects of The Sound and the Fury, self-presentation and performance in private records of Faulkner's life, the ways in which his complicated marriage and his relationships to male mentors underlie his fictions' recurring motifs of marriages and fatherhood, Faulkner's readings of Melville, Hawthorne, and Thoreau and the problematics of authorial sovereignty, his artist-as-God creation of a fictional cosmos, and the epistolary relationships with women that lie in the correspondence behind Requiem for a Nun.

Book Cubism

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  • Author : Guillaume Apollinaire
  • Publisher : Parkstone International
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 1844847497
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Cubism written by Guillaume Apollinaire and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines-with this painting, Picasso revolutionised the entire history of painting. Cubism was thus born in 1907. Transforming natural forms into cylinders and cubes, painters like Juan Gris and Robert Delaunay, driven by Braque and Picasso, imposed a new vision upon the world, in total opposition to the principles of the Impressionists. Largely diffused in Europe, Cubism developed rapidly in successive phases that brought art history to all the richness of the 20th century: from the futurism of Boccioni to the abstraction of Kandinsky, from the suprematism of Malevich to the constructivism of Tatlin. Linking the core text of Guillaume Apollinaire with the studies of Dr. Dorothea Eimert, this work offers a new interpretation of modernity’s crucial moment, and permits the reader to rediscover, through their biographies, the principal representatives of the movement.

Book A Companion to Faulkner Studies

Download or read book A Companion to Faulkner Studies written by Charles Peek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-06-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faulkner scholarship is one of the largest critical enterprises currently at work. Because of its size and scope, accessing that scholarship has become difficult for scholars, students, and general readers alike. This reference includes chapters on individual approaches to Faulkner studies, including archetypal, historical, biographical, feminist, and psychological criticism, among others. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and surveys the contributions of that approach to Faulkner scholarship. The volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography and glossary of critical terms. William Faulkner is one of the most widely read and studied American writers. His works have also generated a vast body of scholarship and elicited criticism from a wide range of approaches. Because of its size, scope, and diversity, accessing that scholarship has become difficult for scholars, students, and general readers alike. This reference comprehensively overviews the present state of Faulkner studies. The volume includes chapters written by expert contributors. Each chapter defines a particular critical approach and surveys the contributions of that approach to Faulkner studies. Some of the approaches covered are archetypal, biographical, feminist, historical, and psychological, among others. The book closes with a selected, general bibliography and glossary of critical terms.

Book Art of the Extreme 1905 1914

Download or read book Art of the Extreme 1905 1914 written by Philip Hook and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The ten years leading up to the First World War were the most exciting, frenzied and revolutionary in the history of art. They were the crucible of Modernism, when Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism and Abstract Art all burst forth. Simultaneously the Old Master market boomed, and art itself was politically weaponised in advance of approaching war. What was the conventional art against which Modernism was rebelling? Why did avant-garde artists become so obsessed with themselves? What persuaded a few bold collectors to buy difficult modern art? And why did others pay so much money for Old Masters? Art expert Philip Hook brings to bear a unique perspective on the art of a unique and extreme decade.

Book Sixteen Modern American Authors

Download or read book Sixteen Modern American Authors written by Jackson R. Bryer and published by Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the earlier edition: "Students of modern American literature have for some years turned to Fifteen Modern American Authors (1969) as an indispensable guide to significant scholarship and criticism about twentieth-century American writers. In its new form--Sixteenth Modern American Authors--it will continue to be indispensable. If it is not a desk-book for all Americanists, it is a book to be kept in the forefront of the bibliographical compartment of their brains."--American Studies

Book German Expressionism

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  • Author : Rose-Carol Washton Long
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1995-12-06
  • ISBN : 0520202643
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book German Expressionism written by Rose-Carol Washton Long and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-12-06 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An indispensable anthology that immediately renders its predecessors obsolete. With its gathering of public and private documents, it carries us through the rise and fall of one of the great upheavals of modern art."—Robert Rosenblum, New York University "These essays, including many previously unavailable in English, are rich with startling new insights into the German Expressionist psyche. Elucidating the artists' view of government, the role of women in modern society, and their own ambivalence about the effectiveness of abstract art, this anthology is essential reading for all scholars and students of twentieth-century art."—Joan Marter, author of Alexander Calder

Book The Noise of Change

Download or read book The Noise of Change written by Stanley J. Rabinowitz and published by Ann Arbor : Ardis. This book was released on 1986 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mississippi Quarterly

Download or read book The Mississippi Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: