Join curators Emily Braun and Elizabeth Cowling for a tour of Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition, which offers a radically new view of Cubism by demonstrating its engagement with the age-old tradition of trompe l’oeil painting. A self-referential art concerned with the nature of representation, trompe l’oeil (“deceive the eye”) beguiles the viewer with perceptual and psychological games that complicate definitions of truth and fiction. Along with Cubist paintings, sculptures, and collages, the exhibition presents canonical examples of European and American trompe l’oeil painting from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.
Explore Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition
Emily Braun and Elizabeth Cowling
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Contributors
Emily Braun
Curator, The Leonard A. Lauder Collection and Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNYElizabeth Cowling
Professor Emerita in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh
Curator, The Leonard A. Lauder Collection and Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNYElizabeth Cowling
Professor Emerita in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh
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