This book dedicated to cubism written by one of the leading art historians of the world, showcases 200 full-color illustrations on the topic of the richest period in modern art.

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 Eng1ish 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