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Description: Bread and Fruit Dish on a Table

TitleBread and Fruit Dish on a Table

Creator namePicasso, Pablo

Creator nationality/cultureSpanish

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1908–1909

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions64 5/8 × 52 1/8 in.

LocationÖffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Kunstmuseum, Basel

http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=3881&viewType=detailView

Accession number2261

SubjectsStill-life painting, SpanishCubism

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What is an object? What is space? And what is the relation between the two concepts? These are three questions that this chapter shall attempt to address, by looking comparatively at the way Cézanne the artist thought about them and the way Einstein the scientist reasoned about them. My aim is not to...

Author

Carol Armstrong

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.53-85

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00292.2

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Chapter subject tags:Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973Still-life painting, French--19th centuryCézanne, Paul, 1839-1906Art and science--France--History--19th centuryCubism--Influence

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PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.3-43

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Chapter subject tags:Abstract Expressionism--United StatesPainting, American--20th centuryColor-field paintingBetty Parsons GalleryArt criticism--United States--History--20th century

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