Matisse on Art,9780520200326

Matisse on Art

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780520200326
ISBN10: 0520200322
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-06-01
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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Summary

The major writings of Henri Matisse (1869-1954), with the exception of the letters, are collected here along with transcriptions of important interviews and broadcasts given at various stages of Matisse's career. Jack Flam provides a biography, a general introduction that addresses the development of Matisse's aesthetic values and theories, and a critical introduction for each text.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
xi
Preface xv
Introduction: A Life in Words and Pictures 1(24)
A Note on the Texts 25(2)
Interview with Guillaume Apollinaire, 1907
27(3)
Notes of a Painter, 1908
30(13)
Statement on Photography, 1908
43(1)
Sarah Stein's Notes, 1908
44(8)
Interview with Charles Estienne, 1909
52(4)
Interview with J. Sacs, 1910
56(4)
Interview with Ernst Goldschmidt, 1911
60(4)
Interview with Clara T. MacChesney, 1912
64(6)
Visit by Robert Rey, 1913
70(3)
Interview with Ragnar Hoppe, 1919
73(5)
Interview with Jacques Guenne, 1925
78(5)
Statement to Teriade: On Fauvism and Color, 1929
83(4)
Statement to Teriade: On Travel, 1930
87(6)
Statement to Teriade: Around a Retrospective, 1931
93(4)
Interview with Gotthard Jedlicka, 1931
97(7)
Interview with Pierre Courthion, 1931
104(2)
Statement to Teriade: On Creativity, 1933
106(1)
Interview with Dorothy Dudley, 1933
107(6)
Letters to Alexander Romm, 1934
113(5)
On Modernism and Tradition, 1935
118(4)
Statements to Teriade: On the Purity of the Means, 1936
122(2)
On Cezanne's ``Three Bathers,'' 1936
124(1)
Divagations, 1937
125(2)
Henry de Montherlant: Listening to Matisse, 1938
127(2)
Notes of a Painter on his Drawing, 1939
129(3)
Interview with Francis Carco, 1941
132(10)
On Transformations, 1942
142(1)
Matisse's Radio Interviews, 1942
143(5)
Conversations with Louis Aragon: On Signs, 1942
148(3)
Interview with Marguette Bouvier, 1944
151(3)
The Role and Modalities of Color, 1945
154(3)
Observations on Painting, 1945
157(2)
Interview with Leon Degand, 1945
159(6)
Black is a Color, 1946
165(1)
How I made my Books, 1946
166(3)
Oceania, 1946
169(1)
Jazz, 1947
169(6)
Interview with Andre Marchand: The Eye, 1947
175(2)
The Path of Color, 1947
177(2)
Exactitude is not Truth, 1947
179(2)
Letter to Henry Clifford, 1948
181(3)
Interview with R. W. Howe, 1949
184(3)
Henri Matisse Speaks to You, 1950
187(2)
Interview with Georges Charbonnier, 1950
189(6)
The Text: Preface to the Tokyo Exhibition, 1951
195(1)
The Chapel of the Rosary, 1951
196(1)
The Chapel of the Rosary: On the Murals and Windows, 1951
197(2)
Statements to Teriade: Matisse Speaks, 1951
199(8)
Testimonial, 1951
207(2)
Interview with Andre Verdet, 1952
209(8)
Looking at Life with the Eyes of a Child, 1953
217(2)
Portraits, 1954
219(6)
Chronology 225(12)
Appendix (Selected French Texts: 2, 12, 25, 31, 37, 49, 51) 237(16)
Notes 253(52)
Bibliography 305(10)
Index 315

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