Cubism and Abstract Art

Erik Satie, “Prestidigiteur Chinois” from “Parade” (1917)Performed by the New London Orchestra

Writers and EditorsGertrude Stein (1874-1946)Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967)Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961)Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930)Velemir Khlebnikov (1885-1922)André Breton (1896-1966)William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)Margaret Anderson (1886-1973)T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)James Joyce (1882-1941)

CriticsMarjorie PerloffHugh Kenner (1923-2003)

ArtistsPablo Picasso (1881-1973) Georges Braque (1882-1963)Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935)Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931)Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)Paul Klee (1879-1940)Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)Alfred Stieglitz (1887-1986)Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)

ComposersClaude Debussy (1862-1918)Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915)Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)Alban Berg (1885-1935)Anton Webern (1883-1945)Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)Erik Satie (1866-1925)

Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1908)

Picasso, “Still Life with Vase, Gourds, and Fruit” (1908)Yale University Art Gallery

Picasso, “Seashells” (1912)

Yale University Art Gallery

Picasso, “Ace of Clubs” (1914), Collage

Yale University Art Gallery

Kasemir Malevich, “Black Suprematist Square” (1914)

Piet Mondrian, “Composition A: Composition with Black, Red, Gray, Yellow, and Blue” (1920)

Wassily Kandinsky, ”Improvisation 35” (1914)

Jackson Pollock, “Cathedral” (1947)

Paul Klee, “Main Path and Tributary Paths” (1929)

Guillaume Apollinaire, “La Cravate et La Montre” (1913-1916)

Gertrude Stein,

“A carafe, that is a blind glass”

A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing. All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling. The difference is spreading.

Alfred Stieglitz, “The Steerage” (1907)

Alfred Stieglitz, “Equivalent” (1926?)

Georgia O’Keeffe, “Black Iris” (1926)

Wyndham Lewis, “Workshop” (1914-1915)

Wyndham Lewis, “A Battery Shelled” (1919)

Marcel Duchamp, “Fountain” (1917)

Alberto Giacometti, “Hands Holding the Void” (1934)Yale University Art Gallery

James Joyce

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Photos courtesy of theBeinecke Rare Book andManuscript Library