{"product_id":"cubism-and-reality-9781350453524","title":"Cubism and Reality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat was Cubism? How did this strange new way of making paintings and sculptures enable artists so decisively to change the trajectory of Modern Art'?\u003c\/b\u003e In responding to these questions, distinguished art historian Christopher Green presents a bold new interpretation of the movement and three of its key protagonists.  Stemming from a critical re-evaluation of the author's own first responses to Cubist artworks, as a student of the late artist and critic John Golding, \u003ci\u003eCubism and Reality\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the commonly-held view of Cubism as either a retreat from reality into abstraction, or an invitation to convert the real into the surreal', arguing instead that Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Juan Gris wanted, above all, to find ways of intensifying and expanding painting's capacity to give viewers \u003ci\u003emore\u003c\/i\u003e, not less, of their lived experience of the world.Lavishly illustrated and filled with rich new insights and approaches to the artwork that are the product of decades' wo","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742444519767,"sku":"9781350453524","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350453524.jpg?v=1758384946","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cubism-and-reality-9781350453524","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}