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The Cubist Cosmos: From Picasso to Leger

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Cubist Cosmos: From Picasso to Leger
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Josef Helfenstein
By (author) Eva Reifert
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:320
Category/GenreArt History
Art and design styles - Cubism
ISBN/Barcode 9783777432625
ClassificationsDewey:709.04032
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Hirmer Verlag
Imprint Hirmer Verlag
Publication Date 25 July 2019
Publication Country Germany

Description

The Cubist Cosmos traces the development of Cubism between 1907 and 1917. The publication reveals the boundless innovative power of the works of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. It also shows how the Cubist pictorial language was received and advanced by the artists of the Parisian avant-garde - such as Fernand Leger and Sonia Delaunay - and how it evolved into 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. In chronologically and thematically devised chapters the publication shows how the influence of folk art and archaic sculpture as well as the works of Paul Cezanne initially became increasingly evident in the paintings of Picasso and Braque. From 1908 crystalline, geometric elements as it were, appear. Until 1911 the characteristic prismatically fragmented forms and an almost colourless austerity dominated. The new pictorial language was taken up by artists like Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, Robert and Sonia Delaunay and Henri Le Fauconnier, who developed and presented it in large formats in the Salon exhibitions of the Paris art world.

Author Biography

Eva Reifert is curator of nineteenth-century and modern art at the Kunstmuseum Basel. Josef Helfenstein is director of Kunstmuseum Basel.