NEW YORK, N.Y. — Cubism is — we have been told — an artistic movement that strives to break down the falsehoods of art. Rather than emulate and create the illusion of reality, cubism did the opposite ...

Societal transformations often spark controversy. In the early 1900s, a new movement in art — derisively called “cubism” for the bizarre cubes the art supposedly depicted — sparked backlash. In 1913, ...

A recent exhibition in Bengaluru has drawn attention within local art circles for its experimental approach to abstraction, ...

pt. 1. Rococo: the idea of an order: Pope and the rococo situation -- Fictions of the Enlightenment -- Rococo as a style -- Arabesque in verse -- Genre pittoresque -- pt. 2. Picturesque, romanticism, ...