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Henri Matisse

Modernist Against the Grain
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A 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.


Contents

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


“[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

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