Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction : The Early Twentieth Century,9780300055160

Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction : The Early Twentieth Century

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ISBN13: 9780300055160
ISBN10: 0300055161
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1993-05-26
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 PRIMITIVISM AND THE `MODERN'
3(84)
Gill Perry
Introduction: Primitivism in art-historical debate 3(6)
Part 1 `The going away' -- a preparation for the `modern'?
9(37)
`Clogs and granite': Brittany and Pont-Aven
10(18)
`Pillaging the savages of Oceania': Gauguin and Tahiti
28(6)
Primitivism and Kulturkritik: Worpswede in the 1890s
34(12)
Part 2 The decorative, the expressive and the primitive
46(41)
The decorative and the `culte de la vie': Matisse and Fauvism
46(16)
The expressive and the Expressionist
62(5)
Expression and the body
67(16)
Conclusion
83(4)
CHAPTER 2 REALISM AND IDEOLOGY AN INTRODUCTION TO SEMIOTICS AND CUBISM
87(97)
Francis Frascina
Introduction
87(13)
Representation: language, signs, realism
100(4)
Art and semiotics
104(31)
Realism, ideology and the `discursive' in Cubism
135(39)
Artistic subcultures: signs and meaning
174(4)
Conclusion
178(6)
CHAPTER 3 ABSTRACTION
184(81)
Charles Harrison
Abstraction, figuration and representation
185(27)
On interpretation
212(7)
Autonomy
219(9)
Kazimir Malevich
228(22)
Piet Mondrian
250(15)
INDEX 265

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