Product Description: In 1890, John La Farge (1835–1910) and his close friend, historian Henry Adams, embarked on a journey to the islands of the South Pacific, where the artist experienced a period of great creative output. This book showcases many of the most important oils, watercolors, and sketches to come out of La Farge’s two-year voyage to the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and is the first to place the artist’s South Seas work in the broader context of exotic travel by artists and writers of the 19th century...read more

Product Description: Invented in 1912 during the collaborative investigations of Georges Braque and Pable Picasso, synthetic cubism combined actual objects with traditional fine art materials on a 2 dimensional surface.