Cubism and war
Subtitle: the crystal in the flame
By: Christopher Green ; with a contribution by Neil Cox
Contributors: Cox, Neil, author; Museo Picasso
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9788434313651
Subjects: European Art; World War, 1914-1918; Cubism; Exhibitions
Description: This book explores the work of those artists who attempted to keep alive the expanded possibilities opened up by Cubism in Paris between 1911 and 1914. This little community of artists refused to accept that recording the war or producing propaganda was their duty. Instead, they kept faith in their independence as individuals as this war of machines threatened to rob every front-line soldier of his humanity and to draw the globe into unprecedented conflict. The vast majority of fit young Frenchmen were mobilized, so those artists left behind in Paris were either foreign or too old or unfit for combat. Pablo Picasso, then known as the inventor of Cubism, remained a prominent figure, alongside his fellow Spaniards Juan Gris and María Blanchard, the Mexican Diego Rivera, the Italian Gino Severini, the Lithuanian sculptor Jacques Lipchitz and the French painters Georges Braque, Henri Laurens, Fernand Léger and Henri Matisse. One focus of this book is the sheer diversity of the work produced by these artists; another is the move made by most of them toward a more structured, architectural Cubism, especially from 1917, which could be taken as reparation against the destructive forces that seemed to have taken over the whole world.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain, October 20, 2016--January 29, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: The crystal in the flame :; title: Cubism and the 1914-18 War  -- Christopher Green; title: Cubism as Realism, 1912-14  -- Christopher Green; title: Different Cubist trajectories :; title: the work of the Paris-based Cubists, 1914-18  -- Christopher Green; title: Europe after the rain :; title: Cubism and the new spirit, 1918-25 -- Neil Cox-- Works in the exhibition-- Chronology /-- Giovanni Casini.