Various Artists, Georges Braque, André Derain, Marcel Duchamp, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Marie Laurencin, Fernand Léger, Jean Metzinger, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Jacques Villon
Du Cubisme (On Cubism)
1907–47, published 1947
Illustrated book with seven etchings (two with engraving, one with drypoint, one with both), three drypoints, two aquatint and engravings, and a supplementary suite of twenty-two plates
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Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881–1973 1251 works onlineWith these words, Picasso shed light on two central principles of his artistic production over nearly 80 years: his openness to a diverse range of styles, subject matters, and mediums, and his resistance to the notion that change in art necessarily corresponds to improvement or progress.
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Marcel Duchamp
American, born France. 1887–1968 188 works onlineWhen Marcel Duchamp created his most famous work—the industrially produced urinal Fountain —it was largely ignored. Fountain was the high point of Duchamp’s campaign to dismantle and expand the boundaries of what constitutes a work of art; it had begun four years earlier, when he asked, “Can one make works that are not ‘of art’?
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Francis Picabia
French, 1879–1953 79 works onlineIn 1922, Francis Picabia wrote, “If you want to have clean ideas, change them like shirts.” Throughout his audacious and inventive career, which spanned almost 50 years and encompassed painting, performance, poetry, publishing, and film, Picabia lived out that prescription.
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