Henri Matisse : the cut-outs / edited by Karl Buchberg, Nicholas Cullinan, Jodi Hauptman, and Nicholas Serota ; with essays by Karl Buchberg, Nicholas Cullinan, Samantha Friedman, Flavia Frigeri, Markus Gross, Jodi Hauptman, Stephan Lohrengel, and Nicholas Serota.
By: Matisse, Henri [artist]
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Contributor(s): Matisse, Henri. Works. Selections | Buchberg, Karl D [editor,, author.] | Cullinan, Nicholas [editor,, author.] | Hauptman, Jodi [editor,, author.] | Serota, Nicholas [editor,, author.] | Tate Modern (Gallery) [host institution.] | Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) [host institution,, publisher.].
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BookPublisher: New York : London : The Museum Of Modern Art ; Tate Publishing, [2014]Distributor: New York, New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK/D.A.P., [2014]Description: 298 pages (some folded) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780870709159 (hardback); 0870709151 (hardback); 9780870709487 (paperback); 0870709488 (paperback).Other title: Cut-outs.Subject(s): Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954 -- Exhibitions | Paper art -- France -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Collage -- France -- 20th century -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 759.4 MAT
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Published in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to Henri Matisse's paper cut-outs, made from the early 1940s until the artist's death in 1954, this publication presents approximately 150 works in a groundbreaking reassessment of Matisse's colorful and innovative final chapter. The result of research conducted on two fronts--conservation and curatorial--the catalogue offers a reconsideration of the cut-outs by exploring a host of technical and conceptual issues: the artist's methods and materials and the role and function of the works in his practice; their economy of means and exploitation of decorative strategies; their environmental aspects; and their double lives, first as contingent and mutable in the studio and ultimately made permanent, a transformation accomplished via mounting and framing. Richly illustrated to present the cut-outs in all of their vibrancy and luminosity, the book includes an introduction and a conservation essay that consider the cut-outs from new theoretical and technical perspectives, and five thematic essays, each focusing on a different moment in the development of the cut-out practice, that provide a chronicle of this radical medium's unfolding, and period photographs that show the works in process in Matisse's studio.
One of modern art's towering figures, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a painter, draftsman, sculptor and printmaker before turning to paper cut-outs in the 1940s. From the clashing hues of his Fauvist works made in the South of France in 1904-05, to the harmonies of his Nice interiors from the 1920s, to this brilliant final chapter, Matisse followed a career-long path that he described as "construction by means of color."
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs held at Tate Modern, London, April 17-September 7, 2014 and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 25, 2014-February 9, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reviews provided by Syndetics
CHOICE Review
Created during the last decade of Matisse's life (1941-54), his cut-out papers represented both an outburst of creative energy and an adaptation to the artist's restricted physical mobility that precluded the strenuous exertion of easel painting. With the help of assistants, the artist used gouache-painted sheets of paper in a wide range of colors, which he then cut in multiple shapes, and had pinned in varied compositions on the walls of his studio. The works' life-affirming vitality and color reveal the artist's continued drive to explore and experiment. The Museum of Modern Art in New York and Tate Modern in London collaborated on an exhibition of these cut-outs following the conservation of The Swimming Pool, created in 1952 and reinstalled after a 20-year absence from public view. The beautifully produced catalog of this exhibition includes essays that explore Matisse's innovative process, brought to life by photographs of the artist with his assistants at work in his studio as well as a generous and representative selection of high-quality color reproductions of significant milestones from a decade of cut-out projects. Essential for art studio, history, and conservation collections. Summing Up: Essential. All readership levels. --Micheline Nilsen, Indiana University South BendAuthor notes provided by Syndetics
Karl Buchbergis Senior Conservator at The Museum of Modern Art.
Nicholas Cullinanis Director of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Jodi Hauptmanis a Senior Curator at The Museum of Modern Art.
Samantha Friedmanis an assistant curator of the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art.
Flavia Frigeriis an assistant curator at Tate Modern in London; she is the organizing curator for Tate's Young Patrons.
Nicholas Serotais director of Tate Modern's art museums and galleries.