Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction : The Early Twentieth Century

by Gill Perry, Francis Frascina, and Charles Harrison

• ISBN13: 9780300055153
• ISBN10: 0300055153
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1993-05-26
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Table of Contents

Primitivism and the 'Modern'	p. 3
Introduction: Primitivism in art - historical debate	p. 3
'The going away' - a preparation for the 'modern'?	p. 9
'Clogs and granite': Brittany and Pont-Aven	p. 10
'Pillaging the savages of Oceania': Gauguin and Tahiti	p. 28
Primitivism and Kulturkritik: Worpswede in the 1890s	p. 34
The decorative, the expressive and the primitive	p. 46
The decorative and the 'culte de la vie': Matisse and Fauvism	p. 46
The expression and the Expressionist	p. 62
Expression and the body	p. 67
Conclusion	p. 83
Realism and Ideology: An Introduction to Semiotics and Cubism	p. 87
Introduction	p. 87
Representation: language, signs, realism	p. 100
Art and semiotics	p. 104
Realism, ideology and the 'discursive' in Cubism	p. 135
Artistic subcultures: signs and meaning	p. 174
Conclusion	p. 178
Abstraction	p. 184
Abstraction, figuration and representation	p. 185
On interpretation	p. 212
Autonomy	p. 219
Kazimir Malevich	p. 228
Piet Mondrian	p. 250
Index	p. 265
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