The complex facets of Cubism remain relevant subjects in art history today, a century after Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque developed the revolutionary style.  This impressive collection of essays by international experts presents new lines of inquiry, including novel readings of individual objects or groups of works through close visual, material, and archival analysis; detailed studies of how Cubism related to intellectual and political movements of the early 20th century; and accounts of crucial moments in the reception of Cubism by curators, artists, and critics. Generous illustrations of paintings, drawings, and sculptures, some familiar but others virtually unknown, support this wide range of approaches to the pioneering works of Picasso, Braque, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, and others.


Distributed for the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Contributions by: Emily Braun, Lisa Florman, Linda Goddard, Maria Gough, Pepe Karmel, Brigitte Leal, Charles Palermo, Christine Poggi, Peter Read, Sebastian Zeidler
Preface by: Elizabeth Cropper