Primitivism, cubism, abstraction : the early twentieth century
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Primitivism, cubism, abstraction : the early twentieth century
（Modern art--practices and debates）
Yale University Press in association with the Open University, 1993
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Pbk: 26 cm
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: hbk ISBN 9780300055153
Description
This volume is part of a four-volume series about art and its interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The books provide an introduction to modern European and American art and criticism that should be valuable both to students and to the general reader. The book presents a survey of art from the first two decades of the 20th century. The authors begin by exploring how aspects of the primitive were invoked by rural artists' colonies formed in France and Germany at the end of the 19th century and by the work of the Fauves and the German Expressionists a few years later. The book then develops an analysis of Cubist works based on semiotic theory, considering the social and cultural values encoded in such signifying systems, and investigating the relationship between representation and ideology. The final chapter considers some problems of interpretation and evolution posed by specific examples of abstract art ranging from Malevich to Mondrian.
Table of Contents
Contents: Chapter 1: Primitivism and the 'Modern' by 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 Tahid 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 Conclusion References Chapter 2: Realism and Ideologue An introduction to semiotics and cubism by Francis Frascina Introduction Representation: language, signs, realism Art and semiotics Realism, ideology and the 'discursive' in Cubism Artistic subcultures: signs and meaning Conclusion References Chapter 3: Abstraction by Charles Harrison Abstraction, figuration and representation On interpretation Autonomy Kazirnir Malevich Piet Mondrian References.
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: pbk ISBN 9780300055160
Description
This volume presents a survey of art from the first two decades of the twentieth century. The authors begin by exploring how aspects of the primitive were invoked by the rural artists' colonies formed in France and Germany at the end of the nineteenth century and by the work of the Fauves and the German Expressionists a few years later. The book then develops an analysis of Cubist works based on semiotic theory, considering the social and cultural values encoded in such signifying systems, and investigating the relationship between representation and ideology. The final chapter considers some problems of interpretation and evolution posed by specific examples of abstract art ranging from Malevich to Mondrian.
Table of Contents
Contents: Chapter 1: Primitivism and the 'Modern' by 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 Tahid 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 Conclusion References Chapter 2: Realism and Ideologue An introduction to semiotics and cubism by Francis Frascina Introduction Representation: language, signs, realism Art and semiotics Realism, ideology and the 'discursive' in Cubism Artistic subcultures: signs and meaning Conclusion References Chapter 3: Abstraction by Charles Harrison Abstraction, figuration and representation On interpretation Autonomy Kazirnir Malevich Piet Mondrian References.
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