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- catalog abstract ""Few painters lived the intellectual adventures of the early twentieth century as intensely as Albert Gleizes. At the centre of the public scandal over Cubism that broke out in Paris in 1911, he was with Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia in New York during the war and was one of the first European avant-garde artists to respond to the scale and vigour of New York life. Gleizes was also one of the few French painters of the 1920s to recognise nonrepresentational painting as the logical development of Cubism." "His work as a painter is accompanied by an immense body of theoretical work, addressing the question posed so starkly by Duchamp and Picabia: why should we paint? What is the justification for the work of art? Over his life he touches on many spheres of human activity - religious, political and cultural history, physics and the philosophy of work." "This book follows Gleizes' argument as it evolves, drawing on painting, and both published and unpublished writings. It reveals Gleizes, not just as a significant historical personality, but as a man whose work and thinking remains surprisingly fresh and relevant to the needs of our own time."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12069084.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Few painters lived the intellectual adventures of the early twentieth century as intensely as Albert Gleizes. At the centre of the public scandal over Cubism that broke out in Paris in 1911, he was with Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia in New York during the war and was one of the first European avant-garde artists to respond to the scale and vigour of New York life. Gleizes was also one of the few French painters of the 1920s to recognise nonrepresentational painting as the logical development of Cubism." "His work as a painter is accompanied by an immense body of theoretical work, addressing the question posed so starkly by Duchamp and Picabia: why should we paint? What is the justification for the work of art? Over his life he touches on many spheres of human activity - religious, political and cultural history, physics and the philosophy of work." "This book follows Gleizes' argument as it evolves, drawing on painting, and both published and unpublished writings. It reveals Gleizes, not just as a significant historical personality, but as a man whose work and thinking remains surprisingly fresh and relevant to the needs of our own time."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-308) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 333 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300089643 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog subject "759.4 B 21".
- catalog subject "Cubism France.".
- catalog subject "Gleizes, Albert, 1881-1953 Friends and associates.".
- catalog subject "Gleizes, Albert, 1881-1953 Views on art.".
- catalog subject "Gleizes, Albert, 1881-1953.".
- catalog subject "ND553.G63 B76 2001".
- catalog subject "Painters France Biography.".
- catalog title "Albert Gleizes : for and against the twentieth century / Peter Brooke.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".