"Green now adds Cubism and Reality to his own sequence of essential publications.the results of a lifetime of detailed research, which, through acute investigation, coalesce into persuasive and perceptive arguments. Green draws upon, and questions, alternative views with characteristic generosity and courtesy." -- The Art Newspaper "Gives a downright new interpretation of Cubism, and so intelligently concerns the three major Cubist artists: a truly major contribution." -- Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor Emerita, the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA "Undoubtedly the best book on Cubism to appear in a generation. Renowned scholar Christopher Green demonstrates how Braque, Picasso and Gris used new geometries and materials to evoke the experience of striving to grasp the forms of bodies, objects, and spaces." -- Pepe Karmel, Professor of Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, USA "Fresh thinking and impeccable scholarship underpin this inspiring reassessment of the Cubism of Braque, Picasso and Gris, as Green brings alive their creative drive and daring through his intense engagement with their most radical works." -- Elizabeth Cowling, Professor Emerita, University of Edinburgh, UK "Christopher Green is one of the great historians of modern art.

With characteristic lucidity, Cubism and Reality distils a lifetime's expertise, causing us to look again, with fresh eyes, at the problem of Cubist painting." -- C.F.B. Miller, Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory, University of Manchester, UK "A grand retrospective and forward-looking work of scholarship, Green's probing history of Cubism is shaped by the latest thinking on modernism and its legacy in the visual arts. With impeccably crafted prose he draws out the subtle differences between Braque's, Picasso's and Gris's Cubism, so that we see Cubisms, in the plural, anew." -- Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA.