Georges Braque and the Cubist still life 1928-1945 / Karen K. Butler with Renée Maurer ; essays by Karen K. Butler, Patricia Favero, Uwe Fleckner, Gordon Hughes, Narayan Khandekar, Renée Maurer, Erin Mysak ; reprinted essays by Carl Einstein, Jean Paulhan ; with an introduction by Eric Trudel ; [editors, Karen Jacobson, Jane E. Neidhardt ; translators: Kevin Cook, Eric Trudel].

Contributor Butler, Karen K., 1972- author, editor of compilation.

ImprintSt. Louis : Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum ; Washington, DC : The Phillips Collection ; Munich ; London ; New York : DelMonico, Prestel, 2013.

Imprint2013

Description239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm

Note:Exhibition catalog.

Note:In conjunction with an exhibition held at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, January 25 - April 21, 2013; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, June 8 - September 1, 2013.

Note:Includes catalog of works.

Note:Foreword / Sabine Eckmann & Dorothy Kosinski -- Preface and acknowledgments / Karen K. Butler & Renée Maurer -- Georges Braque and the cubist still life, 1928-1945: The known and unknown worlds / Karen K. Butler -- Independent minds: Duncan Phillips and Georges Braque / Renée Maurer -- The joy of hallucination: On Carl Einstein and the art of Georges Braque / Uwe Fleckner -- Braque's regard / Gordon Hughes -- Material and process in Georges Braque's still-life paintings, 1928-1944 / Patricia Favero, Erin Mysak, & Narayan Khandekar -- Plates -- Georges Braque (1933) / Carl Einstein -- Braque le patron (1952) / Jean Paulhan.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"This examination of Braque's career features exquisite reproductions and incisive historical and aesthetic investigations of his work leading up to and during World War II. This book offers the first detailed examination of Braque's experiments with still lifes and interiors during a significant, though overlooked, time in his career. One of the leading founders of Cubism, Braque employed the genre of the still life to conduct a lifelong investigation into the nature of perception through the tactile and transitory world of everyday objects. Examining a transitional time between Braque's early Cubist works and his late grand series, this catalog considers his paintings within the cultural and political context of Europe at this time. Reproduced in vivid color, Braque's paintings are accompanied by scholarly essays that explore the rise of Braque's popularity in the US, including his first major retrospective in America, and the reception of his work of the early 1930s and 1940s by German and French critics, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the materials and process employed by the artist as illuminated by an intensive conservation study of select important works."--Publisher's website.

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