Georges Braque: Inventor of Cubism | Susanne Gaensheimer, Susanne Meyer-Buser

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This book seeks to reclaim the pioneering artist of the French avant-garde as the first practitioner of Cubism.For eight years before the First World War, a young Georges Braque and his friend Pablo Picasso shaped what was perhaps the most revolutionary stage in the history of modern painting: Cubism. This catalog of the accompanying exhibition focuses on Braque's turbulent pre-WWI period to reveal the processes by which the artist developed or reinvented his style in rapid succession-- from Fauvism, Proto-Cubism, Analytical Cubism, and ultimately to Cubism. The amazing speed and intensity of…