CUBISM

Behind the cliched image of la belle epoque France was torn by inter-class and international tensions, caught between excitement ove r the experience of modernity and anxiety about its consequences. The book describes how the artistic avant-garde, and Cubism within it, were formed by that turbulent and complex period. Analyzing paintings by Picasso, Braque, Robert and Sonia Delaunay and their a ssociates, the author traces their exploration of the conventions of pictorial representation in the interests both of reflection on the exp...[Read more]