A study of the modern evolution of plastic expression
This 1913 New York publication, issued by the 291 gallery and edited by Marius de Zayas and Paul B. Haviland, is a short study of modern art that reproduces single plates of Cubist and modernist paintings and drawings. Its pictures are black-and-white halftone reproductions, with fragmented faceted forms by Picasso and Picabia beside a rotated genre scene by Paul Cézanne and a reclining nude by Henri Matisse, showing designers how fractured planes and simplified contour line were built into composition.
