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Author
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Formats
Description
A.S. Byatt's books shimmer with all the hues of her critically acclaimed talent and imagination. In The Matisse Stories, this Booker Prize-winning author offers three elegant tales that explore the subtle interplays between mind and eye, heart and hand. In the first, Medusa's Ankles, a fashionable woman watches her life take on darker, more ominous shades in the mirror of a beauty salon. In the next, Art Work, an eccentric housekeeper's alarming eye...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxv, 480 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The art, youth, early maturity and life of artist Henri Matisse are thoroughly examined in this biography that also includes 24 pages of color reproductions. Henri Matisse is one of the masters of twentieth-century art and a household word to millions of people who find joy and meaning in his light-filled, colorful images-yet, despite all the books devoted to his work, the man himself has remained a mystery. Now, in the hands of the superb biographer...
14) Matisse
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
752 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 35 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since its original publication in 1984, this book by Pierre Schneider stands alone as the bible on the art of Matisse. The author spent fourteen years amassing a prodigious amount of information on the artist, and includes his own personal and original views on the work. Including over nine hundred illustrations, this is the most substantial reference of the works of Matisse ever published. The reader will discover Matisse watercolorist, draftsman,...
16) Matisse
Author
Publisher
Phaidon
Pub. Date
1977
Physical Desc
16 p., 48 p. of plates : chiefly col. ill., col. ports. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
17) Henri Matisse
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
126, [1] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.
Language
English
18) Matisse on art
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
199 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Art Institute of Chicago
Pub. Date
©2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 34 cm
Language
English
Description
This book examines the working method, experimental techniques, and compositional choices Matisse used in works created between 1913 and 1917. The works that Henri Matisse (1869-1954) executed between late 1913 and 1917 are among his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic. Often sharply composed, heavily reworked, and dominated by the colors black and gray, these compositions are rigorously abstracted and purged of nearly all descriptive detail....
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