TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harrison,Charles
AU  - Frascina,Francis
AU  - Perry,Gillian
TI  - Primitivism, cubism, abstraction: the early twentieth century 
T2  -  Modern art--practices and debates
SN  - 0300055153
AV  - N6494.P7 H37 1993
U1  - 709.041 20
PY  - 1993///
CY  - New Haven : 
PB  - Yale University Press, in association with the Open University, 
KW  - Primitivism in art
KW  - Cubism
KW  - Art, Abstract
KW  - Art, Modern
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 	Ch. 1. Primitivism and the 'Modern' / Gill Perry --
Introduction: Primitivism in art --
historical debate. pt. 1. 'The going away' --
a preparation for the 'modern'? 'Clogs and granite': Brittany and Pont-Aven. 'Pillaging the savages of Oceania': Gauguin and Tahiti. Primitivism and Kulturkritik: Worpswede in the 1890s. pt. 2. The decorative, the expressive and the primitive. The decorative and the 'culte de la vie': Matisse and Fauvism. The expression and the Expressionist. Expression and the body --
Ch. 2. Realism and Ideology: An Introduction to Semiotics and Cubism / Francis Frascina. Representation: language, signs, realism. Art and semiotics. Realism, ideology and the 'discursive' in Cubism. Artistic subcultures: signs and meaning --
Ch. 3. Abstraction / Charles Harrison. Abstraction, figuration and representation. On interpretation. Autonomy. Kazimir Malevich. Piet Mondrian
N2  - 	
This volume presents a survey of art from the first two decades of the twentieth century. The authors begin by exploring how aspects of the primitive were invoked by the rural artists' colonies formed in France and Germany at the end of the nineteenth 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
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