Robert Delaunay. L'invention du pop. Europe from Devotion to Exhibition Each

from Devotion to Exhibition Each year

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Robert Delaunay. L'invention du pop. Europe from Devotion to Exhibition EachCan avant garde painting assume total formal autonomy at the risk of ignoring mass culture? This poses one of the dilemmas of 20th century modernism. For Robert Delaunay (1885 1941), a major figure in the avant garde, the answer is unequivocal: sensing the need not to confine modern painting to an anti illusionist quest, he strives to articulate realism (mimesis) and abstraction (aisthesis). A precursor of pop in The Cardiff Team in 1913, he is also