Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century

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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 sy... More >>

Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century