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Picasso and the invention of Cubism

By: Karmel, PepeContributor(s): Picasso, Pablo [1881-1973,] (Act) | Yale University PressLanguage: English Publication details: New Haven Yale University Press [2003] Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 233 pages) : 279 illustrations (some color) : (electronic book)ISBN: 0300267819Subject(s): Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973--Sources | Cubism | Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973. fast-(OCoLC)fst00028123 | History-Sources | Sources. fast-(OCoLC)fst01423900Online resources: [A&AePortal (Yale University Press)]
Contents:
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Ideas -- Spaces -- Bodies -- Signs.
Summary: 9780300267815 (electronic book)Summary: (cloth)Summary: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-222) and index.Summary: ""This fascinating book transforms our understanding of Cubism, showing in unprecedented detail how it emerged in Picasso’s work of the years 1906–13, and tracing its roots in nineteenth-century philosophy and linguistics. Linking well-known paintings and sculptures to the hitherto-ignored drawings that accompanied them, Pepe Karmel demonstrates how Picasso’s quest to depict the human body with greater solidity led, paradoxically, to its fragmentation; and how Picasso used the archaic model of stage space to free himself from conventional perspective, replacing the open window of Renaissance painting with a new projective space. In other chapters, Karmel discusses the empiricist philosophy championed by Hippolyte Taine, which encouraged the breakdown of painting into its abstract elements, and laid the groundwork for an art of mental association rather than naturalistic figuration. Similarly, contemporary philology provided the model for a visual language employing both metaphoric and metonymic (but not arbitrary) signs. Combining intellectual history with close visual reading, Picasso and the Invention of Cubism opens new perspectives on the most influential movement in twentieth-century art""--Publisher's description."
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text

still image

Ideas -- Spaces -- Bodies -- Signs.

9780300267815 (electronic book)

(cloth)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-222) and index.

""This fascinating book transforms our understanding of Cubism, showing in unprecedented detail how it emerged in Picasso’s work of the years 1906–13, and tracing its roots in nineteenth-century philosophy and linguistics. Linking well-known paintings and sculptures to the hitherto-ignored drawings that accompanied them, Pepe Karmel demonstrates how Picasso’s quest to depict the human body with greater solidity led, paradoxically, to its fragmentation; and how Picasso used the archaic model of stage space to free himself from conventional perspective, replacing the open window of Renaissance painting with a new projective space. In other chapters, Karmel discusses the empiricist philosophy championed by Hippolyte Taine, which encouraged the breakdown of painting into its abstract elements, and laid the groundwork for an art of mental association rather than naturalistic figuration. Similarly, contemporary philology provided the model for a visual language employing both metaphoric and metonymic (but not arbitrary) signs. Combining intellectual history with close visual reading, Picasso and the Invention of Cubism opens new perspectives on the most influential movement in twentieth-century art""--Publisher's description."

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