Matisse's Sculpture: The Pinup and the Primitive - Couverture rigide

McBreen, Ellen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 030017103X ISBN 13 : 9780300171037

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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. Far from a simple narrative of the artist 'discovering' Africa, the highly original readings of 'Matisse's Sculpture' plot new coordinates of study for early twentieth-century primitivism. The book examines the larger constructs of thought at the time, with a penetrating analysis of anthropology, popular erotica, and the visual culture of French colonialism. In addition, it repositions Matisse's sculptural practice, particularly in regard to its investigations of race and sexuality, as a cornerstone of his prolific career.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ellen McBreen is assistant professor in the department of art and art history at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 030017103X
• ISBN 13: 9780300171037
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 228
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