Preface and Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Preface and Acknowledgments xvii
5. Introduction. Modernist Heteroglossia 1
6. Chapter 1. Languages of Art and Politics: Salon Painting, Caricature, Modernism 17
7. Chapter 2. The White Peril: Colonialism, L’art nègre , and Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon 57
8. Chapter 3. A Rationale of Ugliness: Cubism and Its Critical Reception 85
9. Chapter 4. Politics and Counterpolitics of Collage: Picasso, Gris, and the Effects of War 111
10. Chapter 5. Abstracting Anarchism: František Kupka and the Project of Modernism 145
11. Conclusion. A Politics of Form 177
12. Notes 181
13. Bibliography 205
14. Index 223