Matisse's Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist's Book

by Kathryn Brown

Throughout his career, Henri Matisse used imagery as a means of engaging critically with poetry and prose by a diverse range of authors. Kathryn Brown offers a groundbreaking account of Matisse's position in the literary cross-currents of 20th-century France and explores ways in which reading influenced the artist's work in a range of media. This study argues that the livre d'artiste became the privileged means by which Matisse enfolded literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150132683X
• ISBN13: 9781501326837
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"