Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 (Art Institute of Chicago)

by Stephanie D'Alessandro and John Elderfield

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The works that Henri Matisse (1869-1954) executed between late 1913 and 1917 are among his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic. Often sharply composed, heavily reworked, and dominated by the colours black and gray, these compositions are rigorously abstracted and purged of nearly all descriptive detail. Although they have typically been treated as unrelated to one another, as aberrations within the artist's oeuvre, or as singular responses to Cubism or World War I, "Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917" reveals the deep connections among them and their critical role in an ambitious, cohesive project that took the act of creation itself as...Read more
  • ISBN10 0300155271
  • ISBN13 9780300155273
  • Publish Date 27 April 2010
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 9 March 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 368
  • Language English