Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century (Modern Art-Practices and Debates)

Perry, Gill; Frascina, Francis; Harrison, Dr. Charles

ISBN 10: 0300055153 / ISBN 13: 9780300055153

Edité par Yale University Press, 1993

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Dust jacket has light edge and surface rubbing. Black boards have a tad of edge rubbing. Pen name front endpaper. 1993 first edition All orders packed with care, dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century (Modern Art-Practices and Debates)
• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0300055153
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780300055153
• Reliure: hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Poids: 54 onces
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

This volume is part of a four-volume series about art and its interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The books provide an introduction to modern European and American art and criticism that should be valuable both to students and to the general reader. The book presents a survey of art from the first two decades of the 20th century. The authors begin by exploring how aspects of the primitive were invoked by rural artists' colonies formed in France and Germany at the end of the 19th 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.