THIS IS HOW GEORGES BRAQUE DESCRIBES HIS CONCEPTION OF CUBISM: " WHATPARTICULAR-LY ATI-RACTED ME - AND THIS WAS THE MAIN BEARING OF CUBISM - WASTHE MATERIALISATION OF THIS NEW SPACE THAT I COULD FEEL. So I BEGAN TO CONCENTRATEON STILL LIFES... THIS ANSWERED TO THE HANKERING I HAD ALWAYS HAD, TO TOUCH THINGSAND NOT MERELY SEE THEM... FOR THIS WAS THE FIRST CONCERN OF CUBISM,THE INVESTIGATION OF SPACE. COLOUR ONLY PLAYED A SMALL PART...  LIGHT WAS THE ONLYASPECT OF COLOUR THAT PREOCCUPIED US..."

IN 1907, PICASSO PAINTS LES DEMOISELLES D’AVlGNON.ONE YEAR LATER, CUBISM IS BORN, WITH HIS TWO LEADERS:GEORGES BRAQUE AND PABLO PICASSO.THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF AN ADVENTURE WHICH CONSTITUTESA REAL REVOLUTION IN THE ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY.MANY GREAT TALENTS COME AFTER THE TANDEM BRAQUE/PICASSO:FIRST, FERNAND LEGER, JUAN GRIS, THEN ROBERT DELAUNAY, VILLON,MARCOUSSIS, MARIE LAURENClN, LHOTE, LA FRESNAYE, GLEIZES,METZINGER, PICABIA AND THE SCULPTORS BRANCUSI, ARCHIPENKO,LIPCHITZ, HENRI LAURENS. WITH THEM, CUBISM BECOMES ONE OF THEMOST IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS IN ART HISTORY.

The heroic years of cubism

First artistic shock of the century: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

The laboratories of cubism

From Les Demoiselles d’Avignon to Braque’s Nude

Picasso dissociates, Braque assembles

"That’s when it all started..."

Portraits and still lifes: analytical cubism

First cubist sculpture

The Rio Tinto Factories

The scandal of the "cubist room"

Cubism seen from abroad

Braque surprises Picasso

Assemblages and papiers coil,s

The time of the cubists

Juan Gris, the ascetic of cubism

Polemic against the "cubisters"

Another avant-garde: futurism

Braque ahead of Picasso

New materials and objects

The offensive against cubism

A strange "Cubist House"

Theory and exhibition of La Section d’Or

The "break-up" of cubism

Picasso’s first "installation"

The "impressionist-cubism" of Villon

Delaunay and "pure painting"

Picasso’s papiers coil,s

Bottle, Glass, Pipe and Guitar

Scandal at the Armourg Show

The Wedding by Leger, a kaleidoscope of forms

The success of"La Peau de FOurs"

The sculptors of cubism

Henri Laurens and Buchamp-Villon

Buchamp, movement and time

The "abstract cubism" of Mondrian

Picasso surprises and disturbs Kahnweiler

Cnllectors and dealers nf cuhist art

Cubism outside France

In Germanu, Klee translates Delaunag

Prague: Kramar, collector and pioneer

The Czech school interprets cubism

The Russian cubo-futurists

The temptations of Malevitch

From cubism is born suprematism

Cubism and abstraction in the United States

One En~1ish cubist

After cubism

Is there a literary cubism?

Apollinaire, Cendrars, and simultaneity

The "literature-cubism" of Gertrude Stein

Originality and continuity of cubist poetru

Realistic portrait of Max Jacob

The Card Plogers by Leger

Pioasso imitates himself

The scandal of Parade

Braque exhibits at "UEffort Moderne"

Cendrars, critic of cubism

Gleizes, Metzinger, Marcoussis

Some neo-cubists

Cold cubism: purism

The time of memory

New paths open...

Leger films Le Ballet Mecanique

The serene cubism of the Balconies

From the Three Musicians to the Three Women

Conclusion

Cubism in the century