Albert GLEIZES & Jean METZINGER Du "Cubisme"

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Albert GLEIZES & Jean METZINGER

Du "Cubisme"

Eugène Figuière & Cie, Paris 1912, 18,5x24cm, broché.

| “Cubism, which was accused of being a system, condemns all systems” |

First edition, exceedingly rare copy without statement of edition, with the correct imprint dated 20 October 1912.
Restorations to spine and inner margins of the covers, a discreet fold to the lower right corner of the front cover.
Illustrated with 26 artworks by Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, André Derain, Georges Braque, Jean Metzinger, Marie Laurencin, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp, Juan Gris and Francis Picabia.
A fine copy despite restorations, rare without statement of edition, of this Cubist manifesto published on the occasion of the historic exhibition of the “Section d'Or” at the Galerie La Boétie.

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“It is difficult to imagine today the impact of Gleizes and Metzinger's book. Read, reread, celebrated or rejected, it was very quickly translated into Russian and English. The Russian cultural avant-garde discussed it passionately. From the American critic Arthur Jerome Eddy to the Romanian painter Marcel Janco, they recommended reading it, at the risk of forgetting that it was less the theorists than the good painters who expressed themselves in it. The Flemish poet Paul van Ostaijen considered the book as useful for a writer as for an artist, and, in fact, the abandonment of the concern for resemblance of the cubist painters corresponds to the fragmentation of meaning and the unusual images of Apollinaire or Reverdy. Du cubisme ends with these words: “To the partial freedoms conquered by Courbet, Manet, Cézanne and the Impressionists, Cubism substitutes infinite freedom. We now know that Cubism was not a break with the past but a door wide open to the future.” (Serge Fauchereau)