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Symposium—Charting Cubism across Central and Eastern Europe, Part 2

Lehigh University Assistant Professor Nicholas Sawicki discusses the Czech reception of synthetic Cubism in the works of Picasso, Braque, and Kramář.
Nicholas Sawicki
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Lecture:

"Picasso, Braque, and Kramář: The Czech Reception of Synthetic Cubism"

Nicholas Sawicki, Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art, Architecture & Design, Lehigh University

Credits:

Charting Cubism across Central and Eastern Europe is presented in collaboration with and supported in part by the Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture (HGCEA).

Organized by the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art

Contributors

Nicholas Sawicki
Assistant Professor of Art History at Lehigh University

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The Scallop Shell: "Notre Avenir est dans l'Air", Pablo Picasso Spanish, Enamel and oil on canvas
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Pablo Picasso
Paris, spring 1912