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- From: jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Joann Zimmerman)
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- Subject: Re: need: books on Henri Matisse (was Re: Great gift books for
- me!)
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- Date: 26 Dec 92 21:20:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.175726.17762@grebyn.com> Fiona Webster,
- fi@grebyn.com writes:
- >I'm gonna be makin' a trek up to NYC for the Matisse exhibit in
- >early January, and I'd very much like to bone up before I go.
- >So, I could use some help in my efforts to _chasser_les_fauves_,
- >as it were :-)--that is, some recommendations for good books on
- >the subject. Given the source of the suggestion, the Elderfield
- >sounds like a good start (could you say a bit more about it, Keith?).
- >I'm especially interested in books with more words than pictures--
- >those that emphasize art criticism and art history with a special
- >focus on Matisse and his influences/followers. I'd prefer things
- >that are easy to find and also in paperback, but rare or expensive
- >recommendations are also OK,
-
- Well, aren't you in luck; my old professor Jim Herbert, now at USC, has
- just published a book on this very subject. (Back to the nether regions
- of the house to rummage through the to-be-recycled-stuff for the
- Chronicle of Higher Education where I saw this announced.)
- Here we are--James D. Herbert, _The Cultural Politics of Fauve Painting_,
- Yale; 208 pp., $40, real late 1992. "Focuses on works by Andre Derain,
- Henri Matisse and Maurice de Vlaminck in a study of political and
- cultural themes in Fauvist art of early 20th-century France," says the
- abstract.
-
- I've obviously not had a chance to look at the thing, and I didn't get
- very much on Matisse from my course with Herbert, which tried to stay
- within the 19th century, but what I did get, combined with what I know of
- Herbert's interests and approach, suggests that it will be a very
- interesting book indeed, putting some of his dissertation work at Yale
- into book form. If you liked T.J. Clark's _The Painting of Modern Life_,
- you'll probably like Herbert.
-
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- "They like sitting around reading all the books there are. And then they
- love
- arguing about them. Some of those arguments go on for millenium after
- millenium. It just seems to keep them young, for some reason, arguing
- about
- books." -- Julian Barnes
-
- Joann Zimmerman (jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu)
-