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Chargement... Matisse Portraitspar John Klein
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"The devotion of Henri Matisse to the human figure led him to make portraits of many different sitters - members of his family, fellow artists, professionals in other fields, partrons, and various others. At key points in his career he was also an obsessive observer of himself, creating intense series of self-portraits. This book, with some 200 illustrations, offers the first comprehensive account of Matisse's activity as a maker of portraits and self-portraits. Matisse scholar John Klein goes beyond standard approaches to portraiture that focus on questions of likeness and expression of character. He considers the transaction that produces a portrait-- a transaction between the artist and the sitter (even when the sitter is oneself) that is social as much as artistic. Klein investigates the various social contexts of Matisse's sitters and finds that differences among these contexts produced different kinds of portraits and self-portraits with different goals. This was in part due to the personal and social identity of the sitter, but partly also to Matisse's self-perception with respect to the sitter and his goal of engaging the genre as a mode of personal expression. The author also addresses the question of whether depictions of hired models can be considered as portraits and concludes that they lack the social context that is necessary to portraiture. Through the psychological and contextual examination of Matisse's portraits and self-portraits, Klein throws new light on an important body of work by this influential artist. He discusses also the portrait practice of some of Matisse's contemporaries-- Picasso, Derain, Cezanne, and others-- to develop fresh insights into the status of portraiture within twentieth-century art as a whole"--Publisher's description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Chapters 4 and 5 consider the public aspect of his portraiture and self-portraiture; firstly his patronage and portrait commission, then the artist’s self-portraiture at a time when he achieved a level of fame. The final Chapter the writer considers “the phenomenon of the portrait-like depiction of a hired model in Matisse’s work in answer to the problems that portraiture’s social dimension posed”.
The book closes with a section under the heading “Conclusion Signing Off: The End of the Portrait”. There are extensive Notes; a Select Bibliography; and an Index.
This is a scholarly yet very readable study; the writer discusses Matisse’s work at length, and the individual paintings in detail, drawing comparisons, occasionally with the work of other artists.
It is illustrated throughout with around 200 illustrations, the vast majority in full colour; those in black and white are mostly monotone drawings. The images vary in size and include the quite small, but there are many good sized pictures of a quarter, half or full-page, with a few full-page bleed images, invariable of a detail from a painting. The images run with the text and most usefully appear alongside the relevant passages.
This is an impressive well laid-out book printed on quality paper; a most handsome volume. (