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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Henri Matisse; Henri Matisse |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gilles Néret; Henri Matisse; Josephine Bacon |
ISBN: | 3822865354 9783822865354 3822886440 9783822886441 |
OCLC Number: | 43261029 |
Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
Notes: | Illustrated endpapers. |
Description: | 256 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cm |
Contents: | Simplifying painting -- Fauve in paradise -- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde -- Oriental carpet -- Temptation of abstraction -- Nice, base of operations -- Harem of the Odalisques -- Monumental architecture of the dance -- Wise old man and the young Giantesses -- Light of desire -- Testament of Pharaoh -- Biography -- Bibliography -- List of paintings and sculptures. |
Other Titles: | Matisse |
Responsibility: | Gilles Néret ; [English translation, Josephine Bacon]. |
Abstract:
This introduction to the life and work of Matisse covers every aspect of his career, from the scandal of the Fauves to his travels in the East. A prominent aspect of the text is its visual insistence on the multiplicity in Matisse's work, showing how he turned the whole of modern art on its head.
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