The Cubist Epoch

by Cooper, Douglas; The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• ISBN13: 9780714832425
• ISBN10: 0714832421
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-31
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Cubism originated in Paris between 1906 and 19O8 and was the creation oficasso and Braque, a Spaniard and a Frenchman. Within four years, however,he pictorial methods and technical innovations of these two young paintersad been seized on by other artists in France, Germany, Holland, Italy,zechoslovakia, Russia and England. Thus Cubism, the first fundamentaleevaluation since the Renaissance of what artists should record in theirorks of art and how they should do it, rapidly became the most influentialovement in Western art in the first half of the 20th century, continuing toffect the pictorial method of most major artists until the 1940s. This bookas first published to accompany a major exhibition curated by the author athe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1970.;Douglas Cooper had himselfnown well the principal protagonists in the Cubist Movement, owned works byhem and written extensively on the subject. The exhibition was mounted whenany of the artists, dealers, writers and collectors who created andurthered the development of Cubism were still alive to act as primary

Author Biography

Douglas Cooper (1911-84) was one of the foremost critics and collectors of his generation. His insights into the works of Picasso, Braque and their contemporaries in the international avant-garde are informed by his close friendships with them.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Introduction	p. 11
True Cubism: 1906-1912	p. 17
Early Cubism: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1906-7	p. 17
Early Cubism in relation to Fauvism	p. 25
Braque's Nude, 1907-8	p. 27
Developments in Picasso's Painting, 1907-9	p. 30
Developments in Braque's Painting, 1908-9	p. 37
From Early to High Cubism: The Painting of Braque and Picasso, 1909-12	p. 42
The Cubist Movement in Paris: 1906-1914	p. 65
Derain, 1906-10	p. 65
Le Fauconnier, Gleizes and Metzinger, 1910-14	p. 68
Delaunay, 1910-14	p. 78
Leger, 1909-14	p. 85
The Movement Gathers Momentum, 1911-14	p. 97
Types of Cubism	p. 107
The Puteaux Group and the Section d'Or, 1911-13	p. 112
Villon, Duchamp and Picabia, 1911-13	p. 115
Lesser Painters of the Cubist Movement, 1911-13: de Segonzac, Moreau, Marchand, Lhote, Herbin, Rivera, Ferat, Chagall, Marcoussis and de La Fresnaye	p. 127
The Influence of Cubism Outside France	p. 137
In Holland: Mondrian	p. 137
In Germany: Marc, Macke, Campendonk, Klee and Feininger	p. 142
In Czechoslovakia: Filla, Kubista, Prochazka, Benes, Gutfreund and Capek	p. 150
In Russia: Gontcharova, Larionov, Malevich, Tatlin, Popova and Udaltsova	p. 156
In Italy: The Futurists	p. 164
American Artists in New York and Paris: Weber, Marin, Stella, MacDonald-Wright, Russell and Bruce	p. 175
In England: The Vorticists	p. 180
Late Cubism: 1914-1921	p. 183
Braque and Picasso: Pasted Papers and Paintings, Summer 1912 to Summer 1914	p. 183
Juan Gris: Paintings and Pasted Papers, 1912-14	p. 196
Cubism in Paris during the War Years	p. 206
Picasso: Painting 1914-21	p. 210
Braque: Painting 1917-21	p. 219
Juan Gris: Painting 1915-21	p. 221
Cubist Sculpture	p. 231
Picasso, de La Fresnaye, Czaky and Filla	p. 232
Duchamp-Villon and Archipenko	p. 239
Boccioni and Weber	p. 244
Gutfreund	p. 247
Lipchitz, Gris, Laurens and Braque	p. 249
Conclusion	p. 263
Bibliography	p. 269
Artists and Their Dates	p. 273
Check List	p. 275
Index	p. 313
Photo Credits	p. 320
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