and the first chapter of the book begins in 1907 with their meeting. This
chapter is devoted to an historical survey of the rise and spread of the movement.
The second chapter is dedicated to an investigation of the early Cubism of
Picasso and Braque: to a study of how a new concept of pictorial form and space
came into being. In 1912 Picasso and Braque were joined in their creation of
Cubism by a third artist, Juan Gris (Gris was a Cubist by 1911 but his real
historical importance dates from the following year). 1912 was also the year in
which the new Cubist techniques, collage and papier collé, were invented. The
works of Gris and the use made of the new media by all three artists between
1912 and 1914 are the subject of the third chapter. The fourth and final chapter
is an account of the dissemination of the style in France and comprises a stylistic
survey of the development of individual artists such as Léger and Delaunay who
were temporarily attracted to Cubism and developed individual variants of the
style. The book ends with the outbreak of war in 1914, when the painters were
physically separated by the war and the school, as such, was dissolved.

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