Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century
by Gill Perry
Modern Art: Practices and Debates
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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, show more and investigating the relationship between representation and ideology. The final chapter considers some problems of interpretation and evolution posed by specific examples of abstract art ranging from Malevich to Mondrian show lessTags
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Gill Perry is Professor of Art History at the Open University. Her books include Gender and Art (editor), Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art (editor), Spectacular Flirtations: Viewing the Actress in British Art and Theatre, 1769-1820 and The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons (2011).
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