CUBISM

This title is Taschen 25 - Special edition! It presents Picasso and peers. Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism was the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. Heavily influenced by the stark power of African and Native American art and sculpture, it deconstructed conventions of viewpoint and perspective, revolutionizing painting and western art in general. With its flattened, geometric shapes, overlapping, simplified forms and fragmented spatial planes, Cubism was one of the most influential movements in 20th-century art. About the AuthorAnne Gantefuhrer-Trier, born 1965, studied art history, German literature and modern history in Bonn. From 1990 to 1996 she worked freelance for the August Sander Archive in Cologne, before being employed as a research assistant at the Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne. Since October 2000 she has worked as a freelance curator and writer, and now heads the Department of Photography at the Cologne art-auction house Van Ham Kunstauktionen. Her publications and exhibitions include: contributions to Candida Hofer. Orte Jahre. Photographien 1968-1999 (1999) and Zeitgenossen. August Sander und die Kunstszene der 20er Jahre im Rheinland (2000) as well as Jeff Wall - Bilder von Landschaften (1999).