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Selected Writings on Art CARL EINSTEIN The University of Chicago Press Edited, translated, and introduced Chicago and London by Charles W. Haxthausen The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2019 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permis- sion, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637. Published 2019 Printed in the United States of America 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 1 2 3 4 5 isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226-4 6413- 8 (cloth) isbn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 46427- 5 (e- book) doi: https:// doi .org /10 .7208 /chicago /9780226464275 .001 .0001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Einstein, Carl, 1885– 1940, author. | Haxthausen, Charles Werner, translator. Title: A mythology of forms : selected writings on art / Carl Ein- stein, Charles W. Haxthausen. Description: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2019021379 | isbn 9780226464138 (cloth) | isbn 9780226464275 (ebook) Subjects: lcsh: Art criticism. Classification: lcc n7445.2 .e3913 2019 | ddc 701/ .18—dc23 lc record available at https:// lccn.loc .gov/2 019021379 ♾ This paper meets the requirements of ansi/niso z39.48- 1992 (Permanence of Paper). To Linda T he truth is, we can do very well without art; what we can’t live without is the myth about art. The mythmaker is successful because he knows that in art, as in life, we need the illusion of significance. He flatters this need. Morton Feldman CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xi INTRODUCTION 1 CH. 1 Notes on Recent French Painting (1912) 16 CH. 2 Totality (1914/16) 23 CH. 3 Negro Sculpture (1915) 32 CH. 4 On Primitive Art (1919) 60 CH. 5 African Sculpture (1921) 64 CH. 6 Draft of a Letter to Daniel- Henry Kahnweiler (1923) 135 CH. 7 Cubism (1926) 145 CH. 8 The Berlin Museum for Ethnology (1926) 194 CH. 9 André Masson: Ethnological Study (1929) 203 CH. 10 Pablo Picasso (1931) 212 CH. 11 The Romantic Generation (1931) 247 CH. 12 The Blaue Reiter / Paul Klee (1931) 266 CH. 13 Two Chapters from Georges Braque (1934) 288 CH. 14 Excerpts from The Fabrication of Fictions (1935) 309 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 333 NOTES 337 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 387 INDEX 399
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