{"product_id":"books-henri-matisse-the-cut-outs-by-henri-matisse","title":"Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMatisse's iconic cut-outs, now in paperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the paper cut-outs Henri Matisse made from the early 1940s until his death in 1954, this paperback edition presents approximately 150 works in a groundbreaking reassessment of the artist's colorful and innovative final chapter. The result of new research by conservators and curators, the catalogue explores 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 by 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. Period photographs show the works in progress 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 1904-5, to the harmonies of his Nice interiors from the 1920s to this brilliant final chapter, Matisse's career followed a path that he described as construction by means of color.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53506024505617,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780870709487.jpg?v=1778105575","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-henri-matisse-the-cut-outs-by-henri-matisse","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}