Cubism

Picasso and peers

As you’ll find out in this guide to the fundamentals of cubism, there is more to the genre than its most famous proponent. Cubism—often identified by flattened, geometric shapes, overlapping, simplified forms and fragmented spatial planes—was quite possibly the most influential movement in 20th-century art.

Featured artists: Pablo Picasso, Edmond Fortier, Paul Cézanne, George Braque, Henri Le Fauconnier, Jean Metzinger, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Albert Gleizes, Henri Laurens, Salvador Dalí, Brassaï, Robert Delaunay, Raymond Duchamp-Villon

About the Series:
Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Genre Series features:

• a detailed introduction with approximately 35 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events (political, cultural, scientific, etc.) that took place during the time period
• a selection of the most important works of the epoch; each is presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image and, on the facing page, a description/interpretation of the work and brief biography of the artist as well as additional information such as a reference work, portrait of the artist, and/or citations

About the author:
Anne Ganteführer-Trier (b. 1965) studied art history, German literature and modern history in Bonn. From 1990-1996 she worked for the August Sander archive in Cologne, and as a research assistant at the Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne. A freelance curator and writer, she heads the Department of Photography at art auctioneers Van Ham Kunstauktionen. Her publications and exhibitions include contributions to Candida Höfer: Orte Jahre, Photographien 1968-1999; Zeitgenossen: August Sander und die Kunstszene der 20er Jahre im Rheinland; and Jeff Wall: Bilder von Landschaften.