Description
Book SynopsisA series of linked essays that considers different aspects of Matisse's life and work, revealing how the artist worked against many of the main tenets of modernism.
Trade Review“Henri Matisse: Modernist Against the Grain makes an important contribution to the field, looking at Matisse from a variety of new angles and offering compelling readings of hitherto underexamined aspects of his life and of his work and reception.”
—Alistair Wright,University of Oxford
“[Henri Matisse: Modernist Against the Grain] makes an important contribution to a fuller understanding of the complete man and his entire work.”
—W. S. Bradley Choice
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Matisse: The Man
1. The Media as Medium: Public Self-Portraits
2. “Brutal Egotism”: Gertrude Stein’s Matisse
Part II. Matisse: His Work
3. Strangers in Paradise: Bathers by a River
4. Chamber Music: Woman Before an Aquarium and Woman on a Rose Divan
Coda: Some Propositions Concerning Matisse’s Art of the 1920s
Part III. Matisse: His Critics
5. A Formalist Critique: A Dance Critic Looks at Matisse: André Levinson in 1929
6. A Vitalist Critique: Decoration and Spirituality: The Byzantine/Islamic Matisse
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
