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DU "CUBISME" IN CONTEXT
Introductory essay by Peter Brooke


1. GLEIZES, METZINGER AND 'SALON CUBISM'

2. THE NON-REPRESENTATIONAL FUNCTION: A 'PLASTIC' ART

(a) 'Plastic' and 'esemplastic'
(b) A note on Neo-Plasticism and Suprematism
(c) The representational function

3. ON "CUBISM" AND ITS READERS

A HISTORY OF SUPPRESSION AND DISTORTION

D.H.KAHNWEILER AND ON "CUBISM"
(a) Nietzsche v. Kant
(b) The 'total image'
(c) Philosophical idealism: Kant and Schopenhauer
(d) The 'thing-in-itself'
(e)  John Locke: primary and secondary qualities

ANALYTICAL AND SYNTHETIC CUBISM, or CINDERELLA'S SLIPPER
(a) The terms as used by D.H.Kahnweiler
(b) Alfred Barr and Daniel Robbins
(c) The terms as used by Gleizes and Metzinger
(d) 'Synthetic Cubism' and the 'total image'
(e) Gleizes' view of the phases of Cubism

HIGHER GEOMETRIES
(a) Precedents: Charles Henry and Peter Lenz
(b) The subjective experience of space
(c) Metzinger, Gris and Maurice Princet

BERGSONIAN CUBISM
(a) Mark Antliff: Inventing Bergson
(b) What was the 'rhythm of the Greeks'?
(c) On Celtic Nationalism
(d) The French tradition

4. ON "CUBISM" AND OTHER PAINTERS

PICASSO AND BRAQUE
(a) Gleizes v. Metzinger
(b) Construction v. 'Impressionism of form'
(c) Picasso and Braque as they feature in On "Cubism"

HENRI LE FAUCONNIER

ROBERT DELAUNAY
(a) Delaunay against the Cubists
(b) and Maurice Princet
(c) and Francis Picabia
(d) The Cubists against Delaunay

FRANTIŠEK KUPKA
(a) Injustice of the Cubists
(b) On "Cubism" and non-representational art
(c) Non-representational art and complexity

MARCEL DUCHAMP
(a)  The 'rejection' of Nude Descending a Staircase
(b)  Duchamp's debt to Metzinger

JACQUES VILLON - FERNAND LÉGER - FUTURISM

THE SALON DE LA SECTION D'OR - PURE PLASTICISM AND THE 'BIG' SUBJECT