The enthusiasm of the authors of the movement is reminiscent of that of the Byzantine iconoclasts. While the Cubists abjure everything which until now has been the very subject of their art, that is to say the fixity given within a frame by the composition to a subject.
Abjuration expressed not by a purely negative attitude and consisting of religious abstention, but positive and affirmed by the destruction of its object: thus the zealots who do not... This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 88% left to discover.