Fifth Cubist – The Complete Writings of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

Orde Levinson is an artist, poet, art historian and educator, but above all that he has a love of art with a willingness to share his expertise to the world. He began his research on Kahnweiler at Magdalen College, Oxford, and has also published on John Piper, John Muafangejo, Shakespeare and Cubism, while also exhibiting his own work. Samuel Beckett described his work Ndilapa Nkosi as a ‘moving feat’ and Myfanwy Piper described his catalogue raisonné on the prints of her husband John as ‘meticulous and inexhaustible in research. It is, however not only a work of scholarship but one of enthusiasm and love.’Described by peer reviewers as a remarkable project, a prodigious achievement, essential and long-awaited, Orde Levinson was in the unique and ideal position to have done this work. The real contribution of the book is its impeccable gathering of the writings of one of the most important commentators and first-hand witnesses of the pioneering breakthroughs of twentieth-century art, especially Cubism.Orde is currently finishing The Rialto Dialogues, a work inspired by Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.