'Antliff and Leighten have succeed in making a familiar history new. They have written the intellectual and political history of Cubism that was needed, because the drive behind their book is an intense critical engagement with the pictures and sculptures themselves. The works are centre-stage, and yet this is a book whose great achievement is to bring out the importance of the Cubists in a history far bigger than the history of art' - Christopher Green, Courtauld Institute of Art