A cubism reader : documents and criticism, 1906-1914 / edited by Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten ; translated from the French by Jane Marie Todd ; additional translations by Jason Gaiger ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Antliff, Mark, 1957-

Leighten, Patricia Dee, 1946-

Language:

English

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Cubism--History--Sources.

Cubism.

Art, Modern--20th century--Sources.

Art, Modern.

History.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xix, 690 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Summary:

The most comprehensive collection of cubist primary sources ever compiled for English-language publication, this definitive anthology illuminates the movement's historical genesis with documents that range from manifestos and poetry to exhibition prefaces and reviews to articles that address the cultural, political, and philosophical issues related to cubism. These diverse selections-unabridged and freshly translated-represent a departure from the traditional view of cubism as shaped almost exclusively by Picasso and Braque. Augmented by Antliff and Leighten's insightful commentary on each entry, as well as many of the articles' original illustrations, A Cubism Reader ultimately broadens the established history of the movement by examining its monumental contributions from a variety of contemporary perspectives.

Contents:

Documents

1 Pamphlet published by the Abbaye de Creteil, 1906 / L'Appel de 1906 15

2 "Chronique du mois," Le Feu (September 1907): 162-65 / Martin-Mamy 22

3 "The Wild Men of Paris," The Architectural Record ([New York,] May 1910): 400-414 / Gelett Burgess 26

4 "Georges Braque," preface, Exposition Georges Braque, 9-28 November 1908, Galerie Kahnweiler, 28, rue Vignon, Paris / Guillaume Apollinaire 42

5 "Exposition Braque. Chez Kahnweiler, 28 rue Vignon," Gil Blas, 14 November 1908 / Louis Vauxcelles 48

6 "Picasso" (1909), Camera Work ([New York,] August 1912): 29-30 / Gertrude Stein 50

7 "Preface," Exposition de peinture moderne (Societe de peinture moderne), Salle Bouldieu, Rouen, 20 December 1909-20 January 1910, pp. 1-2 / Elie Faure 56

8 "La feerie," Ile Sonnante (April 1910): 152 / Jean Metzinger 60

9 "Exposition Picasso," La Phalange (20 June 1910): 728-30 / Leon Werth 64

10 "Das Kunstwerk," Neue Kunstlervereinigung Munchen, Moderne Galerie Thannhauser, Munich, September 1910 / Henri Le Fauconnier 69

11 "Note sur la peinture," Pan (October-November 1910): 49-52 / Jean Metzinger 75

12 "Au Salon d'Automne de Paris," L'Art Libre ([Lyons,] November 1910): 441-43 / Roger Allard 84

13 "Exposition Andre Lhote. (Galerie Druet)," La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, no. 24 (July-December 1910): 806-8 / Jacques Riviere 90

14 "Exposition Pablo Picasso (Vollard, rue Laffitte)," Les Hommes du Jour (7 January 1911): n.p. / Henri Guilbeaux 94

15 "Une enquete sur l'orientation da la peinture moderne. Part 2: Le Fauconnier," La Revue du Temps Present (2 May 1911): 466-67 / J. C. Holl 97

16 "Pablo Picasso," America, Revista Mensual Illustrada ([New York,] May 1911): 363-65 / Marius De Zayas 100

17 "Chez Metzi," Paris-Journal, 29 May 1911, p. 3 / Cyril Berger 108

18 "Sur quelques peintres," Les Marches du Sud-Ouest (June 1911): 57-64 / Roger Allard 113

19 "Cubisme et tradition," Paris-Journal, 18 August 1911, p. 5 / Jean Metzinger 123

20 "Picasso e Braque," La Voce ([Florence,] 24 August 1911): 635-37 / Ardengo Soffici 128

21 "Art et ses representants," La Revue Independante (September 1911): 161-72 / Albert Gleizes 145

22 "Pablo Picasso," Paris-Journal, 21 September 1911 / La Palette 154

23 "Jean Metzinger," Paris-Journal, 3 October 1911 / La Palette 157

24 "Notre peinture," Le Journal, 10 October 1911 / Urbain Gohier 160

25 "Le cubisme et MM. Urbain Gohier et Apollinaire," Les Hommes du Jour (11 November 1911): n.p. [8] / Henri Guilbeaux 163

26 "Georges Braque," Paris-Journal, 13 October 1911 / La Palette 168

27 "Andre Derain," Paris-Journal, 25 October 1911 / La Palette 170

28 "Un jour de pluie chez M. Bergson," L'Intransigeant, 26 November 1911 / Maurice Verne 172

29 "A propos du Salon d'Automne," Les Bandeaux d'Or ([Arras,] November 1911): 42-51 / Albert Gleizes 178

30 "Preface," Exposition d'art contemporain (Societe normande de peinture moderne), Galerie d'Art Ancien et d'Art Contemporain, Paris, 20 November-16 December 1911, p. 1 / Rene Blum 189

31 "Alexandre Mercereau," Vers et Prose (October-December 1911): 122-29 / Jean Metzinger 192

32 "Courrier des ateliers: Exposition probable," Paris-Journal, 21 January 1912, pp. 4-5 / La Palette 213

33 "La tendance de la peinture contemporaine," La Revue de France et des Pays Francais (February 1912): 35-41 / Olivier Hourcade 215

34 20 February 1912 (collection Mme. Mare-Vene, Paris) / Lettre d'Andre Mare a Maurice Marinot 226

35 "Preface: Robert Delaunay," Les Peintres R. Delaunay, Marie Laurencin, Galerie Barbazanges, Fauburg Saint-Honore, Paris, 28 February-13 March 1912 / Maurice Princet 232

36 "Enquete sur le cubisme," L'Action (25 February, [10 March?], 17 March, and 24 March 1912) / Olivier Hourcade 237

37 "Sur la tendance actuelle de la peinture," Revue d'Europe et d'Amerique (1 March 1912): 384-406 / Jacques Riviere 249

38 "Les arts: Les Independants," Les Hommes du Jour (part 1: 6 April 1912, n.p.; part 2: 13 April 1912, n.p.; part 3: 20 April 1912, n.p.) / Pierre Dumont 269

39 "La peinture d'apres-demain (?)," Je Sais Tout! (15 April 1912) / Jacques de Gachons 281

40 "Preface," Exposicio d'art cubista, Galeries J. Dalmau, Barcelona, 20 April-10 May 1912, pp. 1-7 / Jacques Nayral 287

41 "Le mouvement pictoral: Vers une ecole francaise de peinture," La Revue de France et des Pays Francais (June 1912): 254-58 / Olivier Hourcade 297

42 "Preface," Troisieme exposition de la Societe normande de peinture moderne, Rouen, 15 June-15 July 1912, pp. 2-4 / Elie Faure 306

43 "Preface," Troisieme exposition de la Societe normande de peinture moderne, Rouen, 15 June-15 July 1912, pp. 9-11 / Maurice Raynal 312

44 "Conception et vision," Gil Blas, 29 August 1912 / Maurice Raynal 318

45 "Le Journal, 5 October 1912, p. 1 / M. Lampue S'Indigne Contre Le Salon D'Automne 324

46 "Preface, Salon de 'la Section d'or,'" Galerie de la Boetie, 64 bis, Paris, rue de La Boetie, 10-30 October 1912, pp. 1-2 / Rene Blum 328

47 vol. 1, no. 1 (9 October 1912). Redacteur: M. Pierre Dumont. Secretaire de la Redaction: Pierre Reverdy. Guillaume Apollinaire, "Jeunes peintres ne vous frappez pas!," 1-2; Maurice Raynal, "L'Exposition de la 'Section d'Or,'" 2-5; G. Buffet, "Impressionisme musical," 5; Pierre Reverdy, "A un pauvre ecoeure," 6; Marc Bresil, "La revue de la presse et des livres," 6-7 / La Section d'Or. Numero Special Consacre a L'exposition De La "Section d'or" 332

48 "Cubist Bar," Fantasio, 15 October 1912, p. 195 / Lan-Pu-He 351

49 "Lettre ouverte a M. Berard, sous-secretaire d'Etat aux Beaux-Arts," Mercure de France (16 October 1912): 894-95 / Pierre Lampue 355

50 "Histoire anecdotique du cubisme," in La jeune peinture francaise (Paris: Societe des Trente, Albert Messein, 1912), 41-61 / Andre Salmon 357

51 "La peinture feminine au XXe siecle," in La jeune peinture francaise, 111 and 114-18 / Andre Salmon 370

52 "La 'jeune peinture francaise,'" Gil Blas, 21 October 1912 / Louis Vauxcelles 377

53 "Robert Delaunay," Paris-Journal, 1 November 1912, p. 4 / La Palette 381

54 "La sensibilite moderne et le tableau," in Moderne Kunstkring (Musee Municipal [Stedelijk], Amsterdam, 6 October-7 November 1912), 17-27 / Henri Le Fauconnier 384

55 Journal Officiel de la Chambre des Deputes (3 December 1912): 2924-26 / Debats Parlementaires 395

56 "L'Art decoratif au Salon d'Automne," Les Hommes du Jour (26 December 1912): n.p. / Max Goth 410

57 Du "Cubisme" (Paris: Eugene Figuiere, [27 December] 1912) / Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger 418

58 "Le cubisme devant les artistes," Les Annales Politiques et Litteraires (July-December 1912): 473-75 / Henriquez-Phillipe 438

59 "Realite, peinture pure," Der Sturm ([Berlin,] December 1912) / Guillaume Apollinaire 453

60 "La tradition et le cubisme," Montjoie! (1 and 2 February 1913) / Albert Gleizes 460

61 "Die moderne Malerei," Der Sturm ([Berlin,] February 1913): 272 / Guillaume Apollinaire 471

62 Les peintres cubistes: Meditations esthetiques (Paris: Eugene Figuere [17 March], 1913) / Guillaume Apollinaire 477

63 "Monument du poete Oscar Wilde par EPSTEIN," broadside distributed with L'Action d'Art (15 April 1913) / Les Compagnons de l'Action d'Art 524

64 "Evolution de l'art: Vers l'amorphisme," Les Hommes du Jour (3 May 1913): 10 / [Anonymous] 530

65 "Les origines de la peinture et sa valeur representative," Montjoie! (29 May 1913): 7 and 14-29; (June 1913): 9-10 / Fernand Leger 535

66 "An Interview with Jean Metzinger on Cubists and What They Are Doing in the Art World," Courier-Citizen, [Lowell, MA,] 12 May 1913, p. 7 / Yvonne Lemaitre 547

67 "Modern Art and the Public," Camera Work, special issue ([New York,] June 1913): 10-14 / Gabrielle Buffet [Picabia] 555

68 Camera Work ([New York,] April-July 1913): 19-20 / Exhibition of New York Studies by Francis Picabia 565

69 "De l'imitation dans la peinture et la sculpture," La Grande Revue (10 July 1913): 316-25 / Roger de la Fresnaye 569

70 "Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Exposition internationale du Cercle de l'art moderne a Amsterdam," De Kunst: Een Algemeen Geillustreerd En Artiskiek Weekblad ([Amsterdam,] 8 November 1913) / Moderne Kunstkring 582

71 "Le Salon d'Automne," Les Ecrits Francais (14 November 1913): 3-4 / Roger Allard 598

72 "Kubisticka Technika," Volne Smery 12 ([Prague,] 1913): 279-92 / Jean Metzinger 602

73 "L'Architecture et le fer," Poeme et Drame (January-March 1914): 22-29 / Raymond Duchamp-Villon 617

74 "Le Salon des Independants," L'Action (1 March 1914): 2 / Adolphe Tabarant 628

75 "Les realisations picturales actuelles," Les Soirees des Paris (15 June 1914): 349-56 / Fernand Leger 634

76 "Simultaneisme-Librettisme," Les Soirees de Paris (15 June 1914): 322-25 / Guillaume Apollinaire 645

77 "Devant l'ideogramme d'Apollinaire," Les Soirees de Paris (July-August 1914): 383-85 / Gabriel Arbouin 652.

Notes:

Translated from more than one language.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 659-673) and index.

ISBN:

9780226021096

0226021092

9780226021102

0226021106

OCLC:

166273808

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