Picasso and Braque Pioneering Cubism

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Summary: One of the best art books money can buy
Review: Your art-book dollar can hardly go further than here, with zillions of beautiful color reproductions of Cubist paintings, running the gamut from the early solid days to the dissolved Analytic days to the flat Synthetic years, and even on to some works where the name Cubism cannot really apply. There is also a fascinating timeline with excerpts from correspondence between Picasso, Braque, and their friends, which gives a very personal glimpse into their lives as they carried out this strange artistic journey together. Very often Cubism books feel that because of the generally dull color of Cubist painting, they can get away with black and white reproductions, but you cannot get a real sense of a painting without seeing it in color. Short of a round-the-world trip to every museum in which these paintings are kept, there is no better education you can get on Cubism today.