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Source: Oxford University Press

Early sources

Cubistas (exh. cat., preface J. Nayral; Barcelona, Gal. Dalmau, 1912)

G. Apollinaire. Les Peintres cubistes: Méditations esthétiques (Paris, 1913)

P. Reverdy. ‘Sur le cubisme’, Nord-Sud, i (1917); repr. in Oeuvres complètes, ‘Nord-Sud’, ‘Self-defence’ et autres écrits sur l’art et la poésie, 1917–1926, ed. E.-A. Hubert (Paris, 1975)

M. Raynal. Quelques intentions du cubisme (Paris, 1919)

D.-H. Kahnweiler. Der Weg zum Kubismus (Munich, 1920; Eng. trans., New York, 1949)

Artists’ writings and statements

A. Gleizes and J. Metzinger. Du cubisme (Paris, 1912; Eng. trans., London, 1913)

F. Léger. ‘Les Origines de la peinture et sa valeur représentative’, Montjoie! (29 May 1913), p. 7; (14–29 June 1913), pp. 9–10; repr. in Fonctions de la peinture (Paris, 1965; Eng. trans., New York and London, 1973)

F. Léger. ‘Les Réalisations picturales actuelles’, Soirées Paris, 25 (1914), pp. 349–56; repr. in Fonctions de la peinture (Paris, 1965; Eng. trans., New York and London, 1973)

J. Gris. ‘Des possibilités de la peinture’, Transatlantic Rev. (1924), i/6, pp. 482–8; ii/1, pp. 75–9; repr. in D.-H. Kahnweiler: Juan Gris: Sa Vie, son oeuvre, ses écrits (Paris, 1946); Eng. trans. and rev. D. Cooper as Juan Gris: His Life and Work (London, 1968–9), pp. 195–200

R. Delaunay. Du cubisme à l’art abstrait, ed. P. Francastel (Paris, 1957)

A. Gleizes. Souvenirs: Le Cubisme, 1908–1911 (Audin, 1957)

J. Lipchitz and H. H. Arnason. My Life in Sculpture (London, 1972)

Exhibition catalogues

Le Cubisme (1907–1914) (exh. cat., Paris, Mus. N. A. Mod., 1953)

Les Cubistes (exh. cat., Bordeaux, Gal. B.-A.; Paris, Mus. N. A. Mod.; 1973)

W. Rubin. ‘Cézannism and the Beginnings of Cubism’, Cézanne: The Late Work (exh. cat., ed. W. Rubin; New York, MOMA, 1977)

The Planar Dimension (exh. cat. by M. Rowell, New York, Guggenheim, 1979)

Zeichnungen und Collagen des Kubismus: Picasso, Braque, Gris (exh. cat., Bielefeld, Städt. Ksthalle, 1979)

Kubismus: Künstler–Themen–Werke, 1907–1920 (exh. cat., Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Ksthalle, 1982)

The Essential Cubism, 1907–1920: Braque, Picasso and their Friends (exh. cat. by D. Cooper and G. Tinterow, London, Tate, 1983)

Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism (exh. cat., intro. W. Rubin, ed. J. Leggio; New York, MOMA, 1989) [with doc. chronology by J. Cousins]

General

A. H. Barr. Cubism and Abstract Art (New York, 1936)

C. Greenberg. ‘The Pasted-paper Revolution’, ARTnews, 57 (1958), pp. 46–9, 60–61; repr. as ‘Collage’ in Art and Culture (Boston, 1961), pp. 70–83

J. Golding. Cubism: A History and an Analysis, 1907–1914 (London, 1959, rev. 1968, 3/1988)

R. Rosenblum. Cubism and Twentieth-century Art (New York and London, 1960, rev. 1977)

E. F. Fry. Cubism (London and New York, 1966)

D. Cooper. The Cubist Epoch (London and New York, 1970)

L. D. Henderson. ‘A New Facet of Cubism: “The Fourth Dimension” and “Non-Euclidean Geometry” Re-interpreted’, A. Q. [Detroit], xxxiv/4 (1971)

R. Rosenblum. ‘Picasso and the Typography of Cubism’, Picasso in Retrospect, ed. J. Golding and R. Penrose (New York, 1973), pp. 49–76

Le Cubisme, Université de Saint-Etienne, Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes et de Recherche sur l’Expression Contemporaine, Travaux iv (Paris, 1973)

L. Steinberg. ‘Resisting Cézanne: Picasso’s Three Women’, A. America, lxvi/6 (1978), pp. 114–33

V. Spate. Orphism: The Evolution of Non-figurative Painting in Paris, 1910–1914 (Oxford, 1979)

L. Steinberg. ‘The Polemical Part’, A. America, lxvii/2 (1979), pp. 114–27

L. W. Gamwell. Cubist Criticism, 1907–1925 (Ann Arbor, 1980)

J. M. Nash. ‘The Nature of Cubism: A Study of Conflicting Explanations’, A. Hist., iii/4 (1980), pp. 435–47

D. Cottington. Cubism and the Politics of Culture (diss., U. London, Courtauld Inst., 1985)

C. Green. Cubism and its Enemies: Modern Movements and Reaction in French Art, 1916–1928 (London and New Haven, 1987)

M. Roskill. The Interpretation of Cubism (Philadelphia, Toronto and London, 1987)

P. Assouline. L’Homme de l’art: D.-H. Kahnweiler, 1884–1979 (Paris, 1988)

C. Poggi. In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism and the Invention of Collage (New Haven, 1992)

G. Severini. Du Cubisme au classicisme (Paris, 1921)

P. R. Banham. Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (London, 1960), pp. 202–13

H. Sting. Der Kubismus und seine Einwirkung auf die Wegbereiter der modernen Architektur (Aachen, 1965)

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