NEW YORK, N.Y. — Cubism is — we have been told — an artistic movement that strives to break down the falsehoods of art. Rather than emulate and create the illusion of reality, cubism did the opposite ...

“It is a curious fact,” writes Alan Bowness, “that there has never before been a major Cubist exhibition in London.” Mr. Bowness, the director of the Tate Gallery, has lately set out to rectify this ...

The complex weave of this book, Cubism and Reality, by one of the celebrated scholars of Cubism, has been evidently long in gestation. Christopher Green himself recognises it as having at times “the ...