Beskrivning
Cubism was the first fundamental re-evaluation since the Renaissance of what artists should record in their works of art and how they should do it. The movement originated in Paris between 1906 and 1908 and was the creation of Picasso and Braque, a Spaniard and a Frenchman. Within four years the pictorial methods and technical innovations of these two young painters had been seized on by other artists across Europe and America, making Cubism the most influential movement in Western art in the first half of the twentieth century.
This book was first published in 1971 to accompany a now legendary exhibition curated by the author at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Douglas Cooper was one of the most distinguished collectors, critics and scholars of Modern art and was a close personal friend of Picasso, Braque and Leger. The exhibition was mounted when many of the artists, dealers, writers and collectors who created and furthered the development of Cubism were still alive to act as primary documentary sources.