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This volume focuses on the works of French painter (and sometimes sculptor) Georges Braque created in the later years of his career, between the end of World War II and his death in 1963. A major figure in twentieth-century French art, Braque remained truthful to the principles of his early cubist paintings yet demonstrated an increased freedom and poetic quality in several major series during his later years-the Interiors, Billiard Tables, Studios,...
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"In this survey of the origins and development of abstraction in twentieth-century painting John Golding, himself a noted painter, teacher and art historian, analyzes the ambitions and careers of seven major artists, each of whom 'had been inspired by the fact that he was on the path to some new, ultimate pictorial truth or certainty, to a visual absolute'." "In his discussion of each artist the author has chosen key works to illustrate a visual progression...