Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 20, 2014-February 16, 2015. Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-357) and indexes.
Contents:
Catalogue of the collection / Leonard A. Lauder and Emily Braun in conversation -- The birth of cubism : Braque's early landscapes and the 1908 Galerie Kahnweiler exhibition / Anna Jozefacka and Luise Mahler. Double exposures : Picasso, drawing, and the masking of gender, 1906-1908 / Christine Poggi -- Picasso, Cézanne, and accounts of early cubism / Michael FitzGerald -- 1909 : Picasso's meditation on the past / Andrea Bayer -- A lesson in difference / Isabelle Monod-Fontaine -- The matrix of Juan Gris's cubism / Harry Cooper -- "Beethoven symphonies on the accordion" : Georges Braque's musical instruments / Lewis Kachur -- Line, form, color, luster : Léger's contrasts of forms / Matthew Affron -- Braque's Faux Bois / Anne Umland -- The cubist challenge to the beholder's share / Eric Kandel -- Juan Gris : four collages / Elizabeth Cowling -- Juan Gris's cubist mysteries / Emily Braun -- Menu du Jour : word and image in cubist painting / Jack Flam -- Picasso's female anatomies / Emily Braun -- Confetti cubism / Rebecca Rabinow -- Essentially modern, quintessentially French : Léger's prewar landscapes / Dorothy Kosinski -- Jouer : the games cubists play / Rebecca Rabinow -- Picasso and patriotism / Kenneth E. Silver -- Incessant invention : Picasso's drawings, 1914-1916 / Pepe Karmel -- Juan Gris : between cubism and classicism / Kenneth E. Silver -- Fernand Léger's multiplicative vision for a "postwar generation" / Christopher Green -- Léger's purism / Carol S. Eliel -- The backs of things / Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow -- Catalogue of the collection / Anna Jozefacka and Luise Mahler.
Summary:
This new history of Cubism, based on works from the most significant private collection in the world today, is written by many of the field's premier art historians and scholars. The collection, recently donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, includes 80 works by Picasso, Braque, Gris and Leger and is unsurpassed in the number of masterpieces and iconic pieces deemed critical to the development of Cubism. Twenty-two essays explore various facets of Cubism from its origins and consider small groupings of works in light of specific themes - such as a study by neuropsychiatrist Eric Kandel on Cubism and the science of perception. Also included is an interview in which Lauder discusses his approach to collecting.
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