Henri Matisse: Rooms with a View - Couverture rigide

Blum, Shirley Neilsen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1580932959 ISBN 13 : 9781580932950

Editeur : The Monacelli Press, 2010

Synopsis

Henri Matisse The colorful, painterly, uplifting, and often joyous works of Henri Matisse are critical in the history of modern art. Throughout his many years as a painter, the celebrated artist kept returning to one particular subject--the windowed interior. "Henri Matisse: Rooms with a View" explores in depth, for the first time, the full significance of the window in Matisse's thinking about interior and exterior space. Matisse studied and rearranged his rooms constantly; when he lived in hotels and small apartments his living quarters usually doubled as his studio. In a continuous engagement with these spaces he produced not only singular masterpieces but also dev...

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Biographie de l'auteur :

Shirley Neilsen Blum has had a long and distinguished career as an art historian. She taught for many years, including periods at the University of Chicago, the University of California at Riverside and the State University of New York at Purchase. Among her numerous published works are the notable Early Netherlandish Triptychs and the exhibition catalog The Window in Twentieth-Century Art.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The Monacelli Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1580932959
• ISBN 13: 9781580932950
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192