An account of Henri Matisse's activity as a maker of portraits and self-portraits. The author considers the transaction that produces a portrait - a transaction between the artist and the sitter that is social as much as artistic - and investigates the social contexts of Matisse's sitters.
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An account of Henri Matisse's activity as a maker of portraits and self-portraits. The author considers the transaction that produces a portrait - a transaction between the artist and the sitter that is social as much as artistic - and investigates the social contexts of Matisse's sitters.
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Add this copy of Matisse Portraits to cart. $29.40, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Yale University Press.
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VG/VG. Black cloth with color pictorial dustjacket. 290 pp., 206 color and bw plates. "The devotion of Henri Matisse to the human figure led him to make portraits of many different sitters-members of his family, fellow artists, professionals in other fields, partrons, and various others. At key points in his career he was also an obsessive observer of himself, creating intense series of self-portraits. This book, with some 200 illustrations, offers the first comprehensive account of Matisse's activity as a maker of portraits and self-portraits." "Matisse scholar John Klein goes beyond standard approaches to portraiture that focus on questions of likeness and expression of character. He considers the transaction that produces a portrait-a transaction between the artist and the sitter (even when the sitter is oneself) that is social as much as artistic. Klein investigates the various social contexts of Matisse's sitters and finds that differences among these contexts produced different kinds of portraits and self-portraits with different goals. This was in part due to the personal and social identity of the sitter, but partly also to Matisse's self-perception with respect to the sitter and his goal of engaging the genre as a mode of personal expression. The author also addresses the question of whether depictions of hired models can be considered as portraits and concludes that they lack the social context that is necessary to portraiture. Through the psychological and contextual examination of Matisse's portraits and self-portraits, Klein throws new light on an important body of work by this influential artist. He discusses also the portrait practice of some of Matisse's contemporaries-Picasso, Derain, Cezanne, and others-to develop fresh insights into the status of portraiture within twentieth-century art as a whole."--Jacket.
Add this copy of Matisse Portraits to cart. $55.00, like new condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Yale University Press.
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Like New. Size: 9x6x1; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Name on end page. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Add this copy of Matisse Portraits to cart. $55.76, very good condition, Sold by Roger Lucas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Horncastle, Lincs, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2001 by Yale University Press.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 1st edition, large square 4to, 289pp, colour and b/w photo illustrations, largely colour; VG/VG+ Copy in VG/VG+ DJ; NB This is a large heavy book well outside the preset postage tariffs; however for simplicity this item has been priced accordingly and no extra postage will be required unless buyer wants overseas sending. Overseas, which includes Europe and the Republic of Ireland, would involve extra postage and would be expensive proportionate to the price of the book.
Add this copy of Matisse Portraits to cart. $65.30, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Yale University Press.
Add this copy of Matisse Portraits to cart. $128.23, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Yale University Press.
