Books, Arts & Photography, Schools, Periods & Styles, Fauvism

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Gill Perry, Francis Frascina, Charles Harrison
Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century (Modern Art : Practices and Debates)
by Yale University Press (Paperback)

The book presents a survey of art from the first two decades of the 20th century. The authors begin by exploring how aspects of the primitive were invoked by rural artists' colonies formed in France and Germany at the end of the 19th century and by the work of the Fauves and the German Expressionists a few years later. The book then develops an analysis of Cubist works based on semiotic theory, considering the social and cultural values encoded in such signifying systems, and investigating the relationship between representation and ideology. The final chapter considers some problems of interpretation and evolution posed by specific examples of abstract art ranging from Malevich to Mondrian.

Rene Percheron, Christian Brouder
Matisse: From Color to Architecture
by Harry N. Abrams (Hardcover)

Few artists have explored genres and techniques with such curiosity and pleasure as Henri Matisse, whose fascination with the relationship between interior and exterior forms occupied him throughout his career. In the early 1950s, he chose to dedicate his last years to the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence and the nursery school in his hometown of Le Cateau-Cambrésis, both in the South of France. These sites represent a culmination of all Matisse's earlier visual and spatial explorations. This book sheds new light on the development of Matisse's oeuvre, which spans some 60 years. Lavishly illustrated with almost 400 images, this deluxe volume includes beautiful reproductions of the artist's most famous paintings paired with lesser-known documents and photographs culled from the archives of his estate. The authors also gathered first-hand accounts related by numerous participants in the Vence and Le Cateau projects. The result is a fascinating, almost day-to-day look at Matisse's ...

Anne Baldassari, Elizabeth Cowling, John Elderfield, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, ...
Matisse Picasso
by Tate Publishing (Hardcover)

Judi Freeman
The Fauve Landscape
by Angeles County Museum of Art (Hardcover)

James D. Herbert
Fauve Painting: The Making of Cultural Politics
by Yale University Press (Hardcover)

Fauve paintings, with their bold distortion of forms and exuberant colour, created great controversy when they were first exhibited in the early years of the 20th century. In this account of Fauvism, James Herbert examines significant paintings of the most famous members of the school - Matisse, Derain and Vlaminck - and shows that what appeared to be their artistic simplicity in fact disguised an involvement in many of the pressing issues of the day. Herbert examines key paintins that exemplify the central themes of Fauvism, analyzing them in the light of the political-cultural debates of the time and relating them to other visual and verbal texts - from political tracts and art-critical writings to tourist postcards and travel guidebooks. Herbert argues that Fauve pictures defined an aesthetic of the landscape that facilitated the cultural expansion of Parisians into the suburbs as residents and into the south of France and overseas as tourists. Matisse's pictures of nudes both ...

Jack Cowart, Pierre Schneider, John Elderfield, Albert Kostenvich, ...
Matisse in Morocco (Painters & Sculptors)
by Thames & Hudson Ltd (Hardcover)

Kenneth Silver, John House
Impressions of the Riviera: Monet, Renoir, Matisse and Their Contemporaries
by Todd Publications (Paperback)

Pierre Schneider
Matisse
by RIZZOLI (Hardcover)

John Russell
Matisse: Father and Son
by Harry N. Abrams (Paperback)

Jack Flam
Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869-1918 (Painters & Sculptors)
by Thames & Hudson Ltd (Hardcover)

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