Forty Years of Cubism. Chronicles Documents Polemics

FORNARI, Antonio. Quarant'anni di Cubismo. Cronache Documenti Polemiche. Rome: Capriotti Editore, 1945. 8vo, illustrated publisher's wrappers with woodcut vignette depicting a putto. Critical essay that traces four decades of the Cubist movement, from the revolution of Picasso and Braque to Italian and international offshoots. Published in the immediate postwar period, the volume testifies to the resumption of critical debate on historical avant-gardes after Fascist censorship. Capriotti Editore, a small Roman publishing house, distinguished itself for scholarly publications intended for a specialized audience. Copy in good general condition with normal use patina, wrappers intact.