A Mythology of Forms: Selected Writings on Art

by Carl Einstein

The German art historian and critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) was at the forefront of the modernist movement that defined the twentieth century. One of the most prolific and brilliant early commentators on cubism, he was also among the first authors to assess African sculpture as art. Yet his writings remain relatively little known in the Anglophone world. With A Mythology of Forms, the first representative collection of Einstein's art theory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022646413X
• ISBN13: 9780226464138
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 2.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.1"