{"product_id":"cubism-9783836505390","title":"Cubism","description":"\u003cp\u003ePioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as\u003cstrong\u003e the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century\u003c\/strong\u003e. With inspiration from African and Native American art and sculpture, its practitioners deconstructed European conventions of viewpoint, form, perspective to create \u003cstrong\u003eflattened, fragmented, and revolutionary images\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Picasso's celebrated painting \u003cem\u003eLes Demoiselles d'Avignon\u003c\/em\u003e is typically regarded as the original cubist work, with its radical fracturing of objects and figures into distinct areas, corresponding to \u003cstrong\u003emultiple different viewpoints\u003c\/strong\u003e. Cubism thereafter developed two distinct trends: \u003cstrong\u003eAnalytical Cubism\u003c\/strong\u003e, which continued to interweave perspectival planes in muted blacks, greys and ochre, and later \u003cstrong\u003eSynthetic Cubism\u003c\/strong\u003e, characterised by simpler shapes, brighter colors, and collage elements such as newspaper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book presents the prime protagonists of Cubism, with work from artists including \u003cstrong\u003ePablo Picasso\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eGeorges Braque\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eFernand Léger\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eJuan Gris\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eAlbert Gleizes\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Delaunay\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGanteführer-Trier, Anne:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Anne Ganteführer-Trier studied art history, German literature, and modern history in Bonn. She was curator of various exhibitions, for example, on August Sander, Candida Höfer, and Jeff Wall, as well as at the Photographische Sammlung\/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne (August Sander Estate). She works as a freelance author and is representative for photography and contemporary art at Villa Grisebach Auctions.","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50671118188818,"sku":"9783836505390","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_19b60889-b842-4482-888a-d091a5a75d87.jpg?v=1733796490","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cubism-9783836505390","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}