cubism

Discusses the leading artists and the main works of Cubism.

For Giacometti, life and art embodied and expressed a persistent struggle. is was the art of obstruction of reworking, erasing, decomposing, and retrieving.

Examines the origins and evolution of Cubism and Futurism, with brief biographies of 26 artists and reproductions of 64 paintings.

Examines ideas that played a role in the development of cubism and their influence on the art of cubists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, traces the evolution of a unique cubist space, looks at how Picasso's work moved from solid form to independent lines and planes arranged in space, and uses analyses of the formation and development of language as models for understanding the cubist sign.

Stimulates appreciation of Delaunay's work by means of visual games involving his paintings of the Eiffel Tower. Includes puzzles, things to draw, and trick pages to manipulate.

Reproduces over seventy paintings by nineteenth-century French artist Fernand Leger, drawn from all periods of his work, and includes two essays discussing his life and career.

A study of cubism in the twentieth century, exploring the history of the movement and the works of artists such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, and Fernand Leger.