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Cubism: Forever Rooted in the Abstract
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The thing about cubism is that no one really knows just what it
means, or even how to use the word, and then we all go and use it
anyway.
Like many other terms used to describe artistic movements --
"baroque," "rococo," "impressionism" -- the first time it was used,
in 1908, it was meant as an insult. A critic said that one of
Picasso's gang made pictures that looked like a pile of cubes -- and
what could be dumber than that? Even Picasso once denied that there
was such a movement as "cubism," or that he had ever been its leader.
And then he went on to win massive fame and fortune as the ...
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Technical nous.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review
; ...Classical Language of Architecture. Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713-80) was appointed...pendentives, drum, and dome of Soufflot's creation, and it was Jean...Baptiste Rondelet (1743-1828), Soufflot's former assistant, who emerged...
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ARCHITECTURE A RATHER DIM FRENCHMAN MADE MODERN ARCHITECTURE POSSIBLE, FINDS CLIVE ASLET
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...tradition from which it grew. Jacques-Germain Soufflot's church of Sainte-Genevieve...chivalric past. This chimed with Soufflot's ambition of combining the...architect Quatremere de Quincy. Soufflot's windows were blocked...
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French history is disappearing before their eyes Priceless documents are rotting in Paris archives through `incompetence'
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...posterity are the registers of the Paris parliament during the Ancien Regime, the last will and testament of Jacques Germain Soufflot, the architect of Paris's Pantheon, and vital texts relating to the Second World War. The archives' directors...
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Travel: France - Following in Sartre's footsteps A black polo neck and a map is all you need to make this philosophy pilgrimage around Paris's Left Bank
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...crossing boulevard Saint- Germain, until you come to another...towards boulevard Saint- Germain along rue de l'Ancienne...the boulevard Saint-Germain, continue along, before...on to the rue Saint- Jacques and continue up until you come to the rue Soufflot. At the end of this...
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