Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century
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270 pages; 230 illustrations, color and b&w. Second in a series of four books about art and its interpretation from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Clean throughout; tight ...
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270 pages; 230 illustrations, color and b&w. Second in a series of four books about art and its interpretation from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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This volume presents a survey of art from the first two decades of the twentieth century. The authors begin by exploring how aspects of the primitive were invoked by the rural artists' colonies formed in France and Germany at the end of the nineteenth century and by the work of the Fauves and the German Expressionists a few years later. The book then develops an analysis of Cubist works based on semiotic theory, considering the social and cultural values encoded in such signifying systems, and investigating the relationship between representation and ideology. The final chapter considers some problems of interpretation and evolution posed by specific examples of abstract art ranging from Malevich to Mondrian.Product Info
ISBN: 0300055161
ISBN-13: 9780300055160
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 1993
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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