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A Mythology of Forms
Carl Einstein
其他書名
Selected Writings on Art
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2019-12-26
主題
Art / General
Art / Criticism & Theory
Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
History / Europe / Germany
ISBN
022646427X
9780226464275
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WwjEDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. One of the most prolific and brilliant early commentators on cubism, he was also among the first authors to assess African sculpture as art. Yet his writings remain relatively little known in the Anglophone world. With
A Mythology of Forms
, the first representative collection of Einstein’s art theory and criticism to appear in English translation, Charles W. Haxthausen fills this gap. Spanning three decades, it assembles the most important of Einstein’s writings on the art that was central to his critical project—on cubism, surrealism, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Paul Klee, and includes the full texts of his two pathbreaking books on African art,
Negro Sculpture
(1915) and
African Sculpture
(1921). With fourteen texts by Einstein, each presented with extensive commentary,
A Mythology of Forms
will bring a pivotal voice in the history of modern art into English.