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Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century

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Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century - Perry, Gill, and Frascina, Francis, Professor, and Harrison, Charles
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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 ...

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Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century 1993, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

ISBN-13: 9780300055160

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