Harrison, Charles,  1942-2009. <br/><br/>
Primitivism, cubism, abstraction :  the early twentieth century / 
Charles Harrison, Francis Frascina, Gill Perry. 
 - 270 p. :  illustration (some color.) ;  27 cm. 
 - Modern art--practices and debates .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index.. 
<br/><br/>	Ch. 1. Primitivism and the 'Modern' / Gill Perry --<br/>Introduction: Primitivism in art --<br/>historical debate. pt. 1. 'The going away' --<br/>a preparation for the 'modern'? 'Clogs and granite': Brittany and Pont-Aven. 'Pillaging the savages of Oceania': Gauguin and Tahiti. Primitivism and Kulturkritik: Worpswede in the 1890s. pt. 2. The decorative, the expressive and the primitive. The decorative and the 'culte de la vie': Matisse and Fauvism. The expression and the Expressionist. Expression and the body --<br/>Ch. 2. Realism and Ideology: An Introduction to Semiotics and Cubism / Francis Frascina. Representation: language, signs, realism. Art and semiotics. Realism, ideology and the 'discursive' in Cubism. Artistic subcultures: signs and meaning --<br/>Ch. 3. Abstraction / Charles Harrison. Abstraction, figuration and representation. On interpretation. Autonomy. Kazimir Malevich. Piet Mondrian. 
<br/><br/> 	<br/>This volume presents a survey of art from the first two decades of the twentieth century. The authors begin by exploring how aspects of the primitive were invoked by the rural artists' colonies formed in France and Germany at the end of the nineteenth century and by the work of the Fauves and the German Expressionists a few years later. The book then develops an analysis of Cubist works based on semiotic theory, 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0300055153 0300055161 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>92050988  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Primitivism in art.<br/>Cubism.<br/>Art, Abstract.<br/>Art, Modern--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>N6494.P7  / H37 1993 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>709.041