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I. “In the nightmare through which we are passing”
Kenneth E. Silver
Description: Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War,...
Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War, 1914–1925
ON 2 AUGUST 1914, the day France declared war on Germany, Pablo Picasso, who was vacationing in Avignon, escorted his friends Georges Braque and André Derain to the railroad station for the journey to Paris, where the...
Author
Kenneth E. Silver
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 1989 by Kenneth E. Silver
Related print edition pages: pp.3-27
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32214
Chapter subject tags:Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--France--History--20th centuryNationalism and art--France--History--20th centuryArt and society--France--Paris--20th centuryWorld War, 1914-1918Painting, French--20th centuryGris, Juan, 1887-1927Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973Art dealers--FranceCubism (Art)

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