Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction The Early Twentieth Century

Name: Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction The Early Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780300055160

ISBN-10: 0300055161

ISBN-13: 9780300055160

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Authors: Gill Perry, Francis Frascina, Charles Harrison

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List price: $42.00
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/26/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 7.75" wide x 10.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English




Primitivism and the 'Modern'



Introduction: Primitivism in art - historical debate



'The going away' - a preparation for the 'modern'?


'Clogs and granite': Brittany and Pont-Aven


'Pillaging the savages of Oceania': Gauguin and Tahiti


Primitivism and Kulturkritik: Worpswede in the 1890s



The decorative, the expressive and the primitive


The decorative and the 'culte de la vie': Matisse and Fauvism


The expression and the Expressionist


Expression and the body


Conclusion



Realism and Ideology: An Introduction to Semiotics and Cubism



Introduction


Representation: language, signs, realism


Art and semiotics


Realism, ideology and the 'discursive' in Cubism


Artistic subcultures: signs and meaning


Conclusion



Abstraction



Abstraction, figuration and representation


On interpretation


Autonomy


Kazimir Malevich


Piet Mondrian


Index