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Gris Juan
Juan Gris (The Museum of Modern Art publication in reprint)
 List Price: Price: $79.24 Description
Juan Gris
 List Price: Price: $125.00 DescriptionThis book presents a study of Juan Gris and Cubism. It is published to coincide with an exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London on 18th September. Gris was the first of the major Cubists to die. His career ended in 1927, while those of Picasso, Braque and Leger continued for many decades further. However, his historical significance as a leading Cubist whose work offers insights into the phenomenon of Cubism as a whole remains. His career as a painter (1910-1917) exactly correlates with the years of Cubism's greatest notoriety. This book, by offering a close scrutiny of his work, offers also a succession of observations on Cubism from the period before 1914 through the 1914-18 war, into the period of the post-war "Rappel a l'ordre". The main body of the book consists of seven essays by Christopher Green. They are not written to form a narrative but to analyze different aspects of Gris' work in the context of Cubism. The issues addressed include the construction of Gris' image as a Cubist alongside Picasso and Braque, the status of his reputation as "the demon of logic" and the painter of a new Platonism, the acceptance and then rejection of his "late" work, the role of gender, nationalism and notions of tradition in his figure-painting and the workings of metaphorical and of theatrical allusion in his still-lives. Both Gris and Cubism are re-examined as elements of a wide-ranging cultural history which covers a fundamental change in the France of the Third Republic. Karin von Maur contributes a study on the theme of music in Gris' work and Christian Derouet contributes a discussion on the 150 letters discovered which were written by Gris between 1915 and 1921.Gris Juan News
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Boston GlobeA weeklong festival celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Picasso, Matisse, de Chirico, and Juan Gris all did designs for it. And presiding over the entire enterprise was Sergei Diaghilev -the impresario as artist in his own right. Diaghilev's artistic agenda received its most succinct expression when the
New York TimesArt Review A Grand and Intimate Modern Art TroveAround the corner you'll find treasures like Juan Gris's 1912 Cubist “Portrait of Pablo Picasso,” a figurative ziggurat built mostly from blocks of Pointillist blue, and Joan Miró's 1918 “Portrait of Juanita Obrador,” a tightly wound woman in a