Primitivism, cubism, abstraction : the early twentieth century

Francis Frascina, Charles Harrison, Gillian Perry

The book presents a survey of art from the first two decades of the 20th century. The authors begin by exploring how aspects of the primitive were invoked by rural artists' colonies formed in France and Germany at the end of the 19th 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, 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.

出版社

Yale University Press, in association with the Open University

発売日

1994-01-01

ページ数

270ページ

ISBN

9780300055160