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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

 

HIGHER GEOMETRIES


(a) Precedents: Charles Henry and Peter Lenz
(b) The subjective experience of space
(c) Metzinger, Gris and Maurice Princet

 

BERGSONIAN CUBISM


(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"

HENRI LE FAUCONNIER

ROBERT DELAUNAY
(a) Delaunay against the Cubists
(b) and Maurice Princet
(c) and Francis Picabia
(d) The Cubists against Delaunay

FRANTISEK KUPKA
(a) Injustice of the Cubists
(b) On "Cubism" and non-representational art
(c) Non-representational art and complexity

MARCEL DUCHAMP
(a) The 'rejection' of Nude Descending a Staircase
(b) Duchamp's debt to Metzinger

SOME LOOSE ENDS

(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