Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: grazia gunn's copy.
Few works in the history of Western art have shattered convention as decisively as Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and this landmark publication from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, serves as the definitive scholarly companion to that revolutionary canvas. Published as part of MoMA's prestigious Studies in Modern Art series, the volume presents a rigorous and multifaceted examination of the 1907 painting — a work that fractured pictorial space, challenged classical ideals of beauty, and ignited the Cubist movement that would reshape the entire trajectory of 20th-century art. Drawing on archival research, critical essays, and a wealth of preparatory studies and related works, this collection of scholarly contributions illuminates the complex genesis and enduring legacy of Picasso's masterpiece, tracing its debt to African art, Iberian sculpture, and the bold formal experiments of Cézanne. Each essay argues persuasively for a fresh understanding of the painting's radical iconography and its pivotal role in the birth of Modernism. For collectors, students, and aficionados of modern art alike, this volume raises as many questions as it answers — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of our visual world was irrevocably transformed on a single canvas in a Paris studio over a century ago.
Author: William Rubin, Hélène Seckel, Judith Cousins
Format: Hardback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: grazia gunn's copy.
Few works in the history of Western art have shattered convention as decisively as Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and this landmark publication from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, serves as the definitive scholarly companion to that revolutionary canvas. Published as part of MoMA's prestigious Studies in Modern Art series, the volume presents a rigorous and multifaceted examination of the 1907 painting — a work that fractured pictorial space, challenged classical ideals of beauty, and ignited the Cubist movement that would reshape the entire trajectory of 20th-century art. Drawing on archival research, critical essays, and a wealth of preparatory studies and related works, this collection of scholarly contributions illuminates the complex genesis and enduring legacy of Picasso's masterpiece, tracing its debt to African art, Iberian sculpture, and the bold formal experiments of Cézanne. Each essay argues persuasively for a fresh understanding of the painting's radical iconography and its pivotal role in the birth of Modernism. For collectors, students, and aficionados of modern art alike, this volume raises as many questions as it answers — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of our visual world was irrevocably transformed on a single canvas in a Paris studio over a century ago.