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Article: Living with Cubism. (exhibition of Czech art at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Washington D.C.) (Decorative Arts)
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- Art in America
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- July 1, 1993
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Those who consider themselves familiar with Cubism and its key role in 20th-century art may find a visit to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum this summer a revelation. "Czech Cubism: Architecture and Design" [through Aug. 151 offers a fascinating survey of architectural drawings, furniture, ceramics and metalwork which embody the Czech venture into Cubist applied art and design between 1910 and 1925. Only in Bohemia, as it was then called, did Cubism influence such an array of art forms and exercise so direct an impact on urban life.
The swift Czech adoption and transformation of the studio experiments of Picasso and Braque in painting owed much to the character of Prague ...