Cubism in the shadow of war
Subtitle: the avant-garde and politics in Paris 1905-1914
By: David Cottington.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Cubism -- France -- Paris; Arts, French -- France -- Paris -- 20th century
Description: This groundbreaking book provides a major reassessment of the history and significance of cubism. David Cottington examines the cubist movement and sets it within the complex political, economic and cultural forces of pre-World War I France. Cubism, as a part of the Parisian artistic avant-garde, played an integral role in the turbulent 'Belle Epoque'.

The author focuses for the first time on cubism's relation to the particular discourses of nationalism, aestheticism, gender, the social purpose of art - that gave meanings to the experience of modernity in Paris in the decade before the war.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Erratum slip inserted.