{"product_id":"matisses-poets-9781501351396","title":"Matisses Poets","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout his career, Henri Matisse used imagery as a means of engaging critically with poetry and prose by a diverse range of authors. Kathryn Brown offers a groundbreaking account of Matisse's position in the literary cross-currents of 20th-century France and explores ways in which reading influenced the artist's work in a range of media. This study argues that the \u003ci\u003elivre d'artiste \u003c\/i\u003ebecame the privileged means by which Matisse enfolded literature into his own idiom and demonstrated the centrality of his aesthetic to modernist debates about authorship and creativity. By tracing the compositional and interpretive choices that Matisse made as a painter, print maker, and reader in the field of book production, this study offers a new theoretical account of visual art's capacity to function as a form of literary criticism and extends debates about the gendering of 20th-century bibliophilia. Brown also demonstrates the importance of Matisse's self-placement in relation to the French \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis beautiful book will become both a reference work on Matisse's works and a reflection on the critical function of the dialogue of images and text. * French Studies (Bloomsbury Translation) *\u003cbr\u003eIt is [...] extremely rare to find a scholar able to move so expertly between literary and visual analysis, and this remains a tremendously impressive and useful contribution to scholarship on Matisse and his literary and artistic networks, on bibliophile culture, and on text-image relationships. * caa.reviews *\u003cbr\u003eKathryn Brown here explores all aspects of Matisse’s achievements as a book artist, showing how his engagement with writers became a driving force in his aesthetic development. Moving between visual and literary imperatives, she also provides an informed and subtle presentation of the historical context in which Matisse was working, further enriching our appreciation of the books he designed, particularly during and after the second World War, when he combined drawings, cut-outs and poetry to express a spirit of resolute resistance and resilient cultural identity. * Peter Read, Professor of Modern French Literature and Visual Arts, University of Kent, UK *\u003cbr\u003eHenri Matisse hails from the distinctly French tradition of the painter-poet whose creative output (as well as personal and professional life) was inextricably linked with literature and writers. In Kathryn Brown’s clear-eyed and discerning study \u003ci\u003eMatisse's Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, the artist’s collaborative book ventures serve as a fascinating lens through which to examine Matisse’s relationship to literature and writers. Using the metaphor of the stage, Brown defines Matisse’s artists’ books as an effective space where the painter could perform his role not only as illustrator but also as reader, critic, and artist acutely aware of his public image. As such, each chapter in this well-researched and amply illustrated study shows how Matisse self-consciously engaged with literary works by authors as diverse as Stéphane Mallarmé, Henry de Montherlant, Charles Baudelaire, Pierre de Ronsard, James Joyce, Tristan Tzara, among others, to produce and extend his own pictorial language as well as to position himself as a sophisticated reader of both the literary canon and the avant-garde. Brown therefore rightly places Matisse’s artists’ books within a broad matrix of concerns that allows her to go beyond conventional text-image analyses to include the social and political valences of Matisse’s creative and strategic decisions in his diverse publishing projects. The interdisciplinary framework of \u003ci\u003eMatisse's Poets\u003c\/i\u003e will attract literary critics as well as art historians and scholars of media and book history. Its lucid prose and finely tuned arguments will make it a useful tool for teaching as well as scholarly research. * Anna Sigrídur Arnar, Professor of Art History, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a remarkable book ... [with] a wide range of new aspects and dimensions. * Leonardo Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Acknowledgements  Introduction \u003ci\u003eMatisse and the Book\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePerforming Literary Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTheorizing Arts of the Book: Maupassant’s Influence\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. Matisse Among the Poets \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eModernist Genealogies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eControversial Beginnings: The Two Versions of \u003c\/i\u003eLes Jockeys camouflés \u003ci\u003eEssential Lines\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThresholds\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. ‘Visual Thoughts’: \u003ci\u003eLes Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eArts of Elimination\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMirrored Space\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePoetic Others\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. Disowning \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eHomeric Frameworks\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBooks within Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eInnovation, Instability, and Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Limited Editions Club in a Post-War Art World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. The War Book: \u003ci\u003ePasiphaé, Chant de Minos (Les Crétois)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003ePerforming the ‘Solar Myth’\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHeroism, Shame, and the Corrida\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrom Myth to Politics\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. Imitation and Innovation: \u003ci\u003eFlorilège des Amours de Ronsard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eAppeasing the Bibliophiles\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eInfluence: A Modernist Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eObjectification and Identification: Portraying the Female Nude\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e6. Enacting Beauty: \u003ci\u003eLes Fleurs du mal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eA New Architecture for \u003c\/i\u003eLes Fleurs du mal \u003ci\u003eModernism and Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMatisse Alone: \u003c\/i\u003e‘Les Fleurs du bien’ \u003cb\u003e7. Problematizing Authorship: \u003ci\u003eLes Lettres portugaises\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eRectificatory Justice and the Book\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSelfhood: Matisse’s Essays on Art\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e8. Beyond the ‘Ritual Space’ of the Book: \u003ci\u003eJazz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eDrawing Words\/Hearing Colour\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Failure of Icarus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e9. Old Acquaintances, New Collaborations: Tzara and Reverdy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSpontaneity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRedefining Ekphrasis: \u003c\/i\u003eVisages \u003cb\u003e10. Imprisonment and Occupation: \u003ci\u003ePoèmes de Charles d’Orléans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Modernist Illuminated Manuscript\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIllustration and Imitation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAppropriating Artistic Gesture\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e11. Apollinaire Redux\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eFriendship as an Interpretive Framework\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Book as Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWomen and Books: From \u003c\/i\u003eApollinaire \u003ci\u003eto \u003c\/i\u003eRepli 12. Literary Legacies \u003ci\u003e                Books out of Time\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e                Traces\u003c\/i\u003e  Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019958157655,"sku":"9781501351396","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501351396.jpg?v=1750781880","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/matisses-poets-9781501351396","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}