The poetics of the art historian

This work constitutes a first advance of study about the writer, art historian, critic and German anarchist Carl Einstein. He proposes an analysis methodological theoretical matrix on which he establishes his unique historiographical conception 20th century art, making focus period that goes from rise expressionist movement to avant-garde consolidation cubism. The proposed hypothesis maintains Einstein finds in Cubism (especially works Picasso, Braque Gris) not "object" investigation but "method" for model critical historicization twentieth-century art.