Cubism and Reality

Christopher Green is Emeritus Professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art, UK and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous volumes, including: Cubism and its Enemies (1987) which was the recipient of the Mitchell Prize for 20th Century art; Juan Gris (1993); Art in France, 1900-1940 (2000); Picasso’s ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’ (2001); Picasso: Architecture and Vertigo (2005); Cubism and War: The Crystal in the Flame (2016).

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on TranslationsIntroduction: Cubism Now 1. A Last Stand for Painting: Georges Braque and John Golding; Pablo Picasso and Roy LichtensteinBeginning at the EndNumbersWith and Against Post-1945 "Modern Art"Picasso’s Painter and his Model Series and Roy Lichtenstein’s “Idiot” PicassosBraque’s Studios and the “Reality of Space”The Distance between Cubism and Modern Art after 19602. The Act of Seeing: The Early Cubism of Braque, Picasso and GrisGoing beyond Les Demoiselles d’AvignonAnalytical Cubism?Learning-by-doing: Braque’s Cubist BeginningsLearning-by-doing: Picasso’s Cubist BeginningsJuan Gris Joins In3. Learning to See Again: Braque and Picasso Before Collage, 1910-12Unknown MasterpiecesRe-startFailure?Braque, “L’infinition” and an Invitation with Picasso to WonderlandSuccess? Looking and SeeingLight and the Immaterial4. Simple Facts? The Arrival of Collage: Gris, Picasso, BraqueJuan Gris’s Critique and the Discovery of CollageBraque and Picasso: The First Papiers Collés – Drawing with Papers, Sketching in AirPicasso and Braque: From Drawing to Making New ThingsJuan Gris: Collage and Interrogative PaintingBraque and Picasso: What Can Be for Ever?5. Postscript: Dada, Classic Realism, Cubism: Francis Picabia versus PicassoNotes Index

Green now adds Cubism and Reality to his own sequence of essential publications...the results of a lifetime of detailed research, which, through acute investigation, coalesce into persuasive and perceptive arguments. Green draws upon, and questions, alternative views with characteristic generosity and courtesy.