Cubism and abstract art

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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Date
1936
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art
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Cezanne
Gauguin d. 1903
1890 JAPANESE PRINTS Provence Seurat d.1891 1890
SYNTHETISM d. 1906
NEO-IMPRESSIONISM
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d. 1890 1886 Paris
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Redon
Rousseau
Paris
Paris
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1905
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Paris 1915
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DADAISM
NEOPLASTICISM
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1916 Cologne
Leydei Berlin
1920 Berlin 1918 Paris 1920
1916 Paris
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SURREALISM 1919 1925
1925 MODERN 1925
1924 Paris
ARCHITECTURE
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Painting, sculpture, industrial and
commercial art, typography, pho
tography, the theatre and the cim
ema have felt the influence of Cub
ism and abstract art. The history
of non-representational art is here
traced from its late 19th century an
tecedents to its present renaissance.
The principal sources of Cubism
are illustrated by African sculpture
and the work of Cezanne, Seurat
and Rousseau; of Abstract Expres
sionism by the work of Gauguin, van
ong Gogh, Redon and Matisse. Am
the 20th century movements repre
sented are Cubism (Picasso, Braque,
Leger, Gris, Duchamp) ; Cubist and
abstract sculpture (Brancusi, Picas
so, Archipenko, Duchamp -Villon,
Lipchitz, Arp) ; Futurism (the Ital
ians, Boccioni, Severini, Balla) ;
Abstract Expressionism in Germany
(Kandinsky, Klee) ; and abstract
trends in Dadaism and Surrealism.
The abstract movements which in
volve architecture and the practical
arts include Suprematism (Male-
vich) and Constructivism in Russia ;
de Stijl (Doesburg) and Neo-Plasti-
cism (Mondrian) in Holland; Pur
ism (LeCorbusier) in Paris ; and the
Bauhaus group in Germany.
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Contents
6
Acknowledgments
9
Preface
Cubism and Abstract Art by Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
11
Introduction
19
Two main traditions of abstract art
20
From Impressionism to Fauvism
29
Analytical Cubism
54
Futurism
64
Abstract Expressionism in Germany
73
Abstract painting in Paris
77
Synthetic Cubism
103
Cubist sculpture
116
Brancusi
120
Abstract painting in Russia
130
Constructivism
140
Abstract art in Holland: de Stijl ; Neo-Plasticism
153
Post-War Germany : the Bauhaus
163
Purism
167
Abstract films
170
Abstract photography
172
-isian Abstract Dnd /*v ^
179
Abstract in Surrealist art
197
The younger generation
203
Catalog by Dorothy C. Miller and Ernestine M. Fantl
234
Bibliography by Beaumont Newhall
Figures in parentheses in captions beneath illustrations refer to numbers in catalog section.