On "Cubism" in context
by
Peter Brooke
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION GLEIZES, METZINGER AND 'SALON CUBISM'
THE NON-REPRESENTATIONAL FUNCTION: A 'PLASTIC' ART
(a) 'Plastic' and 'esemplastic'
(b) A note on Neo-Plasticism and Suprematism
(c) The representational function
PART ONE: ON "CUBISM" AND ITS READERS
D.H.KAHNWEILER AND ON "CUBISM"
- (a) On "Cubism" - a history of Suppression and distortion
- (b) Nietzsche v. Kant
(c) The 'total image'
(d) Philosophical idealism: Kant and Schopenhauer
(e) The 'thing-in-itself'
(f) John Locke: primary and secondary qualities
ANALYTICAL AND SYNTHETIC CUBISM, or CINDERELLA'S SLIPPER
(a) The terms as used by D.H.Kahnweiler
(b) Alfred Barr and Daniel Robbins
(c) The terms as used by Gleizes and Metzinger
(d) 'Synthetic Cubism' and the 'total image'
(e) Gleizes' view of the phases of Cubism
(a) Precedents: Charles Henry and Peter Lenz
(b) The subjective experience of space
(c) Metzinger, Gris and Maurice Princet
(a) Mark Antliff: Inventing Bergson
(b) What was the 'rhythm of the Greeks'?
(c) On Celtic Nationalism
(d) The French tradition
PART TWO: ON "CUBISM" AND OTHER PAINTERS PICASSO AND BRAQUE
(a) Gleizes v. Metzinger
(b) Construction v. 'Impressionism of form'
(c) Picasso and Braque as they feature in On "Cubism"ROBERT DELAUNAY
(a) Delaunay against the Cubists
(b) and Maurice Princet
(c) and Francis Picabia
(d) The Cubists against DelaunayFRANTISEK KUPKA
(a) Injustice of the Cubists
(b) On "Cubism" and non-representational art
(c) Non-representational art and complexityMARCEL DUCHAMP
(a) The 'rejection' of Nude Descending a Staircase
(b) Duchamp's debt to Metzinger
- (a) Jacques Villon
- (b) Fernand Léger
- (c) Futurism
- (d) The Salon de la Section d'Or
- (e) England and Russia
- (f) Pure 'plasticism' and the big subject