major first step towards Cubism it is not yet Cubist.
A masterpiece of Czech Cubist architecture, the building was constructed from 1911- 1912.
novel As I Lay Dying can be read as an interaction with the Cubist mode.
Although a classic, the image of the monkeys looks new and fresh thanks to its Cubist reinterpretation.
This is an exaggeration, for although it was a
major first step towards Cubism it is not yet Cubist.
In 1907, Picasso, already widely known, unexpectedly for others, creates a series of paintings in a new,
so-called Cubist manner.
At the upper left are the letters"JOU", which appear in many Cubist paintings and refers to the newspaper titled"Le Journal.
Picasso was the main analytic Cubist, but Braque was also prominent,
having abandoned Fauvism to work with Picasso in developing the Cubist lexicon.
In the field of American fiction, William Faulkner's 1930
novel As I Lay Dying can be read as an interaction with the Cubist mode.
Though not as well remembered as the Cubist painters, these poets continue to influence and inspire;
American poets John Ashbery and Ron Padgett have recently produced new translations of Reverdy's work.
Nonetheless, the Cubist poets' influence on both Cubism
and the later movements of Dada and Surrealism was profound; Louis Aragon, founding member of Surrealism, said that for Breton, Soupault, Éluard and himself, Reverdy was"our immediate elder, the exemplary poet.