Primitivism, cubism, abstraction, the early twentieth century

Yale university press

1994

1 vol. (270 p.) ; ill. en coul.

26 cm

anglais

0-300-05516-1

CHAPTER 1: Primitivism and the 'Modern' / Gill Perry -- Introduction: Primitivism in art-historical debate -- Part 1: '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 -- Part 2: The decorative, the expressive and the primitive - The decorative and the 'culte de la vie': Matisse and Fauvism - The expressive and the Expressionist - Expression and the body - Conclusion --- CHAPTER 2: Realism and Ideology. An introduction to semiotics and cubism / Francis Frascina -- Introduction -- Representation: language, signs, realism -- Art and semiotics -- Realism, ideology and the 'discursive' in Cubism -- Artistic subcultures: signs and meaning -- Conclusion --- CHAPTER 3: Abstraction / Charles Harrison -- Abstraction, figuration and representation -- On interpretation -- Autonomy -- Kazimir Malevich -- Piet Mondrian.

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