Chatting With Henri Matisse
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Author |
: Henri Matisse |
Publisher |
: Getty Publications |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2013-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781606061299 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1606061291 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chatting with Henri Matisse by : Henri Matisse
In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious operation. It was an extensive interview, seen at the time as a vital assessment of Matisse's career and set to be published by Albert Skira's then newly established Swiss press. After months of complicated discussions between Courthion and Matisse, and just weeks before the book was to come out--the artist even had approved the cover design--Matisse suddenly refused its publication. A typescript of the interview now resides in Courthion's papers at the Getty Research Institute. This rich conversation, conducted during the Nazi occupation of France, is published for the first time in this volume, where it appears both in English translation and in the original French version. Matisse unravels memories of his youth and his life as a bohemian student in Gustave Moreau's atelier. He recounts his experience with collectors, including Albert C. Barnes. He discusses fame, writers, musicians, politicians, and, most fascinatingly, his travels. Chatting with Henri Matisse, introduced by Serge Guilbaut, contains a preface by Claude Duthuit, Matisse's grandson, and essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Laurence Bertrand Dorleac. The book includes unpublished correspondence and other original documents related to Courthion's interview and abounds with details about avant-garde life, tactics, and artistic creativity in the first half of the twentieth century.
Author |
: Kenneth Turan |
Publisher |
: Public Affairs |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2014-06-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781586483968 |
ISBN-13 |
: 158648396X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Not to be Missed by : Kenneth Turan
The images and memories that matter most are those that are unshakeable, unforgettable. Kenneth Turan’s fifty-four favorite films embrace a century of the world’s most satisfying romances and funniest comedies, the most heart-stopping dramas and chilling thrillers. Turan discovered film as a child left undisturbed to watch Million Dollar Movie on WOR-TV Channel 9 in New York, a daily showcase for older Hollywood features. It was then that he developed a love of cinema that never left him and honed his eye for the most acute details and the grandest of scenes. Not to be Missed blends cultural criticism, historical anecdote, and inside-Hollywood controversy. Turan’s selection of favorites ranges across all genres. From All About Eve to Seven Samurai to Sherlock Jr., these are all timeless films—classic and contemporary, familiar and obscure, with big budgets and small—each underscoring the truth of director Ingmar Bergman’s observation that “no form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”
Author |
: Kathryn Brown |
Publisher |
: Reaktion Books |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2021-03-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789143829 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789143829 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henri Matisse by : Kathryn Brown
Henri Matisse’s experiments with form and color revolutionized the twentieth-century art world. In this concise critical biography, Kathryn Brown explores Matisse’s long career, beginning with his struggles as a student in Paris and culminating in his celebrated use of paper cutouts and stained glass in the last decade of his life. The book challenges various myths about Matisse and offers a fresh perspective on his creativity and legacy. Chapters explore the artist’s enthusiasm for fashion and cinema, his travels, personal ties, interest in African art, love of literature, and willingness to challenge audience expectations. Through close readings of Matisse’s works, Brown offers new insight into the artist’s friendships and battles with dealers, critics, collectors, and fellow artists.
Author |
: Lawrence Weschler |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2013-03-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307833983 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307833984 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder by : Lawrence Weschler
Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.
Author |
: Mark Feeney |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 437 |
Release |
: 2004-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226239682 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226239683 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nixon at the Movies by : Mark Feeney
Publisher Description
Author |
: Elizabeth Cowling |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 408 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015054413243 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Matisse Picasso by : Elizabeth Cowling
This work accompanies an exhibition organised, in partnership, by Tate Modern, the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, and the Museum of Modern Art. It examines the crucial relationship between Matisse and Picasso.
Author |
: Tina Sutton |
Publisher |
: Pegasus Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1605985783 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781605985787 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of Markova by : Tina Sutton
In pre-World War I England, a frail Jewish girl is diagnosed with flat feet, knock knees, and weak legs. In short order, Lilian Alicia Marks would become a dance prodigy, the cherished baby ballerina of Sergei Diaghilev, and the youngest ever soloist at his famed Ballets Russes. It was there that George Balanchine choreographed his first ballet for her, Henri Matisse designed her costumes, and Igor Stravinsky taught her music—all when the re-christened Alicia Markova was just 14. Given unprecedented access to Dame Markova’s intimate journals and correspondence, Tina Sutton paints a full picture of the dancer’s astonishing life and times in 1920s Paris and Monte Carlo, 1930s London, and wartime in New York and Hollywood. Ballet lovers and readers everywhere will be fascinated by the story of one of the twentieth century’s great artists.
Author |
: Jason Felch |
Publisher |
: HMH |
Total Pages |
: 397 |
Release |
: 2011-05-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780547538020 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0547538022 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chasing Aphrodite by : Jason Felch
A “thrilling, well-researched” account of years of scandal at the prestigious Getty Museum (Ulrich Boser, author of The Gardner Heist). In recent years, several of America’s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity? The answer lies at the Getty, one of the world’s richest and most troubled museums, and scandalous revelations that it had been buying looted antiquities for decades. Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and candid interviews, these two journalists give us a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum, and tell a story of outlandish characters and bad behavior that could come straight from the pages of a thriller. “In an authoritative account, two reporters who led a Los Angeles Times investigation reveal the details of the Getty Museum’s illicit purchases, from smugglers and fences, of looted Greek and Roman antiquities. . . . The authors offer an excellent recap of the museum’s misdeeds, brimming with tasty details of the scandal that motivated several of America’s leading art museums to voluntarily return to Italy and Greece some 100 classical antiquities worth more than half a billion dollars.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “An astonishing and penetrating look into a veiled world where beauty and art are in constant competition with greed and hypocrisy. This engaging book will cast a fresh light on many of those gleaming objects you see in art museums.” —Jonathan Harr, author of The Lost Painting
Author |
: Aynne Kokas |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2017-02-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520294011 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520294017 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hollywood Made in China by : Aynne Kokas
"In a race to capture new audiences, Hollywood moguls began courting Chinese investors to create branded entertainment on an international scale--from behemoth theme parks to blockbuster films--after China's 2001 World Trade Organization entry. Hollywood Made in China examines this compelling dynamic, where the distinctions between Hollywood's "Dream Factory" and the "Chinese Dream" of global influence become increasingly blurred. What is revealed illuminates how China's influence is transforming the global media industries from the inside out"--Provided by publisher.
Author |
: Daniel Suarez |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 530 |
Release |
: 2015-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780451469441 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0451469445 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Influx by : Daniel Suarez
New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez imagines a chilling future where technological advances are held hostage by the government in this thriller that perfectly blends “nail-biting suspense with accessible science” (Publishers Weekly). Physicist Jon Grady and his team have discovered a device that can reflect gravity—a triumph that will revolutionize the field of physics and change the future. But instead of acclaim, Grady’s lab is locked down by a covert organization known as the Bureau of Technology Control. The bureau’s mission: suppress the truth of sudden technological progress and prevent the social upheaval it would trigger. Because the future is already here. And it’s rewards are only for a select few. When Grady refuses to join the BTC, he’s thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison housing other doomed rebel intellects. Now, as the only hope to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age, Grady and his fellow prisoners must try to expose the secrets of an unimaginable enemy—one that wields a technological advantage half a century in the making.