Matisse and the Subject of Modernism
Author:   Alastair Wright
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
ISBN:  

9780691118307


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   20 February 2005
Replaced By:   9780691119472
Format:   Hardback
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Matisse and the Subject of Modernism


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Author:   Alastair Wright
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 26.70cm
Weight:   1.531kg
ISBN:  

9780691118307


ISBN 10:   0691118302
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   20 February 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780691119472
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction: Between Moderism and Tradition 7 Part 1: Me Tis Chapter 1: Painting and the Ready-Made Pastiche at the 1905 Saklon des Independants 17 Chapter 2: ""Trouble Retinien"" Fauvism, Madness, and the Schizophrenic Eye 55 Part II: Metis Chapter 3: Modern(ist) Memories Le Bonheur de vivre and the Stimulus of Tradition 93 Chapter 4: Negative Dialectics Matisse and the decoratif at the 1910 Salon d'Autimne 131 Part III: Metisse Chapter 5: Miscegenations Nu bleu and the Collapsing of Difference 163 Chapter 6: Seeing Difference Looking Otherwise at marisse's Morocco 193 Conclusion 220 Notes 228 Acknowledgments 273 Bibliography 274 Index 282 Copyright and Photography Credits 288

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A book like Alastair Wright's Matisse and the Subject of Modernism is enough to rekindle my faith in the future of art history as a discipline... [I]t manages to cast entirely new light on Matisse's best-known works of the period from 1905-13. -- Yve-Alain Bois ArtForum


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Alastair Wright is Assistant Professor of Art History at Princeton University.

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