{"product_id":"henri-matisse-henri-matisse-9780870709159","title":"Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith their economy of means and chromatic geometries, Matisse's cut-outs are the apex of his \"construction by means of color\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to Henri Matisse's paper cut-outs, made from the early 1940s until the artist's death in 1954, this publication presents approximately 150 works in a groundbreaking reassessment of Matisse's colorful and innovative final chapter. The result of research conducted on two fronts--conservation and curatorial--the catalogue offers a reconsideration of the cut-outs by exploring a host of technical and conceptual issues: the artist's methods and materials and the role and function of the works in his practice; their economy of means and exploitation of decorative strategies; their environmental aspects; and their double lives, first as contingent and mutable in the studio and ultimately made permanent, a transformation accomplished via mounting and framing. Richly illustrated to present the cut-outs in all of their vibrancy and luminosity, the book includes an introduction and a conservation essay that consider the cut-outs from new theoretical and technical perspectives, and five thematic essays, each focusing on a different moment in the development of the cut-out practice, that provide a chronicle of this radical medium's unfolding, and period photographs that show the works in process in Matisse's studio. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of modern art's towering figures, \u003cb\u003eHenri Matisse\u003c\/b\u003e (1869-1954) was a painter, draftsman, sculptor and printmaker before turning to paper cut-outs in the 1940s. From the clashing hues of his Fauvist works made in the South of France in 1904-05, to the harmonies of his Nice interiors from the 1920s, to this brilliant final chapter, Matisse followed a career-long path that he described as \"construction by means of color.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henri Matisse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870709151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870709159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Museum of Modern Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.90h x 9.20w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2015 pg. 1303","brand":"Henri Matisse","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44053961670911,"sku":"9780870709159","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9cd5b476-a702-442e-a498-687e61bbf513.jpg?v=1685027215","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/henri-matisse-henri-matisse-9780870709159","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}