The liberation of painting
Subtitle: modernism and anarchism in avant-guerre Paris
By: Patricia Leighten
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780226471389; 9780226002422
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Anarchism and art; Modernism (Art); French Painting; Art; Modernism (Aesthetics); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Modernist heteroglossia; title: Languages of art and politics: salon painting, caricature, modernism; title: The White Peril: colonialism, l'art nègre, and les demoiselles d'Avignon; title: A rationale of ugliness: Cubism and its critical reception; title: Politics and counterpolitics of collage: Picasso, Gris, and the effects of war; title: Abstracting anarchism: František Kupka and the project of Modernism; title: Conclusion: A politics of form.