Matisse's Sculpture: The Pinup and the Primitive

McBreen, Ellen

ISBN 10: 030017103X / ISBN 13: 9780300171037

Verlag: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2014

Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 228 pages. Long perceived as a side pursuit to his celebrated painting career, Henri Matisse?s sculpture receives an overdue critical examination in this book. Beginning in 1906, soon after the artist acquired his first African sculpture, Matisse found inspiration in erotic and ethnographic photography, which had become inexpensively mass-produced thanks to advances in halftone technology. Working with these two radically different depictions of the body?one hand carved, the other mechanically made?was a foundational method for Matisse and crucial to the development of his pre-World War I abstraction. Far from a simple narrative of the artist ?discovering? Africa, the highly original readings of Matisse?s Sculpture plot new coordinates of study for early 20th-century primitivism. It examines the larger constructs of thought at the time, with a penetrating analysis of anthropology, popular erotica, and the visual culture of French colonialism. In addition, the book repositions Matisse?s sculptural practice, particularly in regard to its investigations of race and sexuality, as a cornerstone of his prolific career. Record # 352872. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 352872

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Long perceived as a side pursuit to his celebrated painting career, Henri Matisse’s sculpture receives an overdue critical examination in this book. Beginning in 1906, soon after the artist acquired his first African sculpture, Matisse found inspiration in erotic and ethnographic photography, which had become inexpensively mass-produced thanks to advances in halftone technology. Working with these two radically different depictions of the body—one hand carved, the other mechanically made—was a foundational method for Matisse and crucial to the development of his pre-World War I abstraction.

Far from a simple narrative of the artist “discovering” Africa, the highly original readings of Matisse’s Sculpture plot new coordinates of study for early 20th-century primitivism. It examines the larger constructs of thought at the time, with a penetrating analysis of anthropology, popular erotica, and the visual culture of French colonialism. In addition, the book repositions Matisse’s sculptural practice, particularly in regard to its investigations of race and sexuality, as a cornerstone of his prolific career.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Ellen McBreen is assistant professor in the department of art and art history at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Matisse's Sculpture: The Pinup and the ...
Verlag: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good