{"product_id":"9783836505390","title":"Cubism","description":"Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as\u003cb\u003e the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century\u003c\/b\u003e. With inspiration from African and Native American art and sculpture, its practitioners deconstructed European conventions of viewpoint, form, perspective to create \u003cb\u003eflattened, fragmented, and revolutionary images\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Picasso’s celebrated painting \u003ci\u003eLes Demoiselles d’Avignon\u003c\/i\u003e is typically regarded as the original cubist work, with its radical fracturing of objects and figures into distinct areas, corresponding to \u003cb\u003emultiple different viewpoints\u003c\/b\u003e. Cubism thereafter developed two distinct trends: \u003cb\u003eAnalytical Cubism\u003c\/b\u003e, which continued to interweave perspectival planes in muted blacks, greys and ochre, and later \u003cb\u003eSynthetic Cubism\u003c\/b\u003e, characterised by simpler shapes, brighter colors, and collage elements such as newspaper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book presents the prime protagonists of Cubism, with work from artists including \u003cb\u003ePablo Picasso\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eGeorges Braque\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eFernand Léger\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eJuan Gris\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eAlbert Gleizes\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eRobert Delaunay\u003c\/b\u003e.","brand":"TASCHEN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46382501003505,"sku":"9783836505390","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9783836505390_p0.jpg?v=1768949115","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783836505390","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}