Matisse's Sculpture: The Pinup and the Primitive
Matisse's Sculpture: The Pinup and the Primitive
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Matisse. McBreen, Ellen.
Yale University Press, 2014
Book ID: S00238
Long perceived as a side pursuit to his celebrated painting career, Henri Matisse’s sculpture receives an overdue critical examination in this book. Beginning in 1906, soon after the artist acquired his first African sculpture, Matisse found inspiration in erotic and ethnographic photography, which had become inexpensively mass-produced thanks to advances in halftone technology. Working with these two radically different depictions of the body—one hand carved, the other mechanically made—was a foundational method for Matisse and crucial to the development of his pre-World War I abstraction.
228 pp. Cl. B/W + colour images.
