Fernand Leger (1881-1955) is famed for his mechanical-tubular Cubism of the 1920s and for the Futurist-inspired film Ballet Mecanique, his collaboration with composer George Antheil. Leger incorporated elements from a wide range of modernist artistic movements, including Fauvism, Neoplasticism, Surrealism, Neoclassicism and even Social Realism. This volume includes 35 color images; a commentary by Carolyn Lanchner, a former curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA, accompanies each work, elucidating its significance and its context.

In 1936, invited by Andre Breton to contribute to an exhibition of Surrealist objects, Meret Oppenheim (1913-85) decided to act upon a cafe conversation she had recently had with Pablo Picasso and his then companion Dora Maar. Commenting on a fur-covered bracelet that Oppenheim had made for the designer Schiaparelli, Picasso remarked that one could cover just about anything in fur, to which Oppenheim had responded, -Even this cup and saucer.- The resulting sculpture was -Object, - a teacup, saucer and spoon purchased from a department store and lined with Chinese gazelle fur.
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