Cubism

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Cubism is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between October 04, 2021 and April 01, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Albert Gleizes, one of the founders of Cubism”; “retreated into … Cubism”. It most often appears alongside China, France, Paris.

Metadata

• Category: Concepts
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: October 04, 2021
• Last seen: April 01, 2025

Appears In

• Highlights From The Comments On Modern Architecture
• The Colors Of Her Coat

Related Pages

• • China (2 shared issues)
• • France (2 shared issues)
• • Paris (2 shared issues)
• • 19th century African art (1 shared issues)
• • 20th century (1 shared issues)
• • 9-11 (1 shared issues)
• • abstract art (1 shared issues)
• • Afghanistan (1 shared issues)
• • AI (1 shared issues)
• • Aka (1 shared issues)
• • Akhenaten (1 shared issues)
• • Albert Gleizes (1 shared issues)

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Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Highlights From The Comments On Modern Architecture

October 04, 2021 · Original source

But analysis of the rise of modern art has been hindered by the fact that it was an ideological movement which still controls academia and Western art institutions, and it has always been in that movement's interests to revise the past in order to blame its failures on its enemies. For instance, you'll commonly read that modern art began as a response to the horrors of WW1. The truth is quite the opposite: proto-modern artists were demanding a great war from about 1906, and got quite psyched up about WW1 (see eg Ezra Pound's BLAST). They believed Western civilization was systemically corrupt and needed to be utterly destroyed before they could create "true Art". (They used phrases like "a clean sweep" and "a great burning".) Albert Gleizes, one of the founders of Cubism, hoped for the complete destruction of cities and a return to a more pastoral, spiritual, community-oriented medieval lifestyle. The artists now paraded as "modern" to give the illusion that modern art was some sort of peace protest movement--e.g., Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen--weren't modernists at all; just read their poems. Not a single modernist technique among them.

The Colors Of Her Coat

April 01, 2025 · Original source

And what about cameras? A whole industry of portraits, landscapes, cityscapes - totally destroyed. If you wanted to know what Paris looked like, no need to choose between Manet’s interpretation or Beraud’s interpretation or anyone else’s - just glance at a photo. A Frenchman with a camera could generate a hundred pictures of Paris a day, each as cold and perspectiveless as mathematical truth. The artists, defeated, retreated into Impressionism, or Cubism, or painting a canvas entirely blue and saying it represented Paris in some deeper sense. You could still draw the city true-to-life if you wanted. But it would just be more Paris.

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• Highlights From The Comments On Modern Architecture
• The Colors Of Her Coat