Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Leger, Picabia

by Jens M. Daehner and Christopher Green

An unlikely episode in the history of European Modernism is the alliance between the avant-garde and the antique forged by artists of impeccable radical credentials. This book focuses on the reinventions and transformations of antiquity in the work of four culturally and politically diverse artists between 1905 and 1935. In distinctly different ways, classicizing creations such as de Chirico's enigmatic piazzas, Picasso's post-Cubist women, L ger's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892369779
• ISBN13: 9780892369775
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Trust Publications
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.3" x 11.3"