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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | Pablo Picasso; Henri Matisse |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sue Roe |
ISBN: | 9781905490868 1905490860 |
OCLC Number: | 873832667 |
Description: | xvi, 365 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE WORLD FAIR AND ARRIVALS -- 1. The Arrival of Picasso -- 2. In Montmartre -- 3. Models and Motifs -- 4. The Picture Sellers -- 5. Blue Notes -- 6. The Impact of van Gogh -- 7. Poiret: Art and Design -- 8. Reconstructions ... and Ruin -- 9. At the Academie Humbert -- 10. The First Salon D'Automne -- pt. II THE ROSE PERIOD -- 1. The Bateau-Lavoir -- 2. Anarchy and the Joy of Life -- 3. Fernande; and the Lapin Agile -- 4. New Searches for Arcadia: Enter the Steins -- 5. In Collioure -- 6. At the Circus -- 7. Wild Beasts -- 8. New Tensions, New Opportunities -- 9. Picasso and Gertrude Stein -- 10. Immaculate Modigliani -- 11. The North and South Poles of Modern Art: Picasso and Matisse -- 12. Sculptures, Carvings, Icons -- 13. New Expectations -- pt. III CARVINGS, PRIVATE LIVES, `WIVES' -- 1. Picasso and Matisse: The Two-man Race -- 2. Raymonde -- 3. Motion Pictures -- 4. Alice B. Toklas -- 5. The French Lessons -- 6. The Demoiselles Unveiled -- 7. New Liaisons. Contents note continued: 8. The Whole Story -- 9. Festivities, Prospects, Tragedy -- 10. Rousseau's Party -- pt. IV STREET LIFE -- 1. Modern Dance -- 2. Summertime -- 3. New Directions -- 4. Flight -- 5. Exoticism -- 6. The Interior Life -- 7.`Art' -- 8. Endings. |
Responsibility: | Sue Roe. |
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Arresting...admirable...What an eye for art Roe has: she doesn't spin out unduly the descriptions, but you feel the presence of the work...brilliant. * The Guardian * An elegant synthesis of complex material...it excels: Roe is a skilled and graceful writer. * The Telegraph * Lively and engaging...in her entertaining, ingeniously structured account Roe brings Montmartre's heyday back to life. * The Sunday Times * [Roe]skilfully weaves her descriptions of artworks into her romp through the artists' struggles and fractious relationships. * The Times * A colourful narrative describing the travails and triumphs of an equally colourful cast...Roe describes the detail of daily life in Montmartre with particular skill. * New Statesman * With evocative imagery Roe sketches out the intensely visual spectacle on which Montmartre's artistic community was able to draw * Financial Times * Roe's writing is almost equally vivid...This bright, high-pitched chaos catches the spirit of the times * The Observer * Sue Roe knows every inch of Montmartre then and now...this is a reliable, entertaining guide to [the] period. * The Daily Mail * Read more...


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- Matisse, Henri -- 1869-1954
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