Patricia Leighten Livres

An investigation of the central role that theories of the visual arts and creativity played in the development of fascism in France between 1909 and 1939.

Cubism initiated a pictorial revolution through its radical approach to image- making, invention of the new media of collage and sculptural assemblage, and evolution towards pure abstraction. This work aims to reveal these innovations as integrally related to rapid changes in French society. schovat popis