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Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954
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- Edition
- First Edition
- Features
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- Original Language
- English
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9780679434290
- Book Title
- Matisse the Master : Alife of Henri Matisse: the Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.8in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Art
- Topic
- Individual Artists / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, European
- Item Width
- 7.2in
- Item Weight
- 38.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 544 Pages
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"If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone," wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw huge crowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled and ridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat; he simply pushed on from one innovation to the next, and left the world to draw its own conclusions. Unfortunately, these were generally false and often damaging. Throughout his life and afterward people fantasized about his models and circulated baseless fabrications about his private life. Fifty years after his death,Matisse the Master(the second half of the biography that began with the acclaimedThe Unknown Matisse)shows us the painter as he saw himself. With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his voluminous family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Hilary Spurling documents a lifetime of desperation and self-doubt exacerbated by Matisse's attempts to counteract the violence and disruption of the twentieth century in paintings that now seem effortlessly serene, radiant, and stable. Here for the first time is the truth about Matisse's models, especially two Russians: his pupil Olga Meerson and the extraordinary Lydia Delectorskaya, who became his studio manager, secretary, and companion in the last two decades of his life. But every woman who played an important part in Matisse's life was remarkable in her own right, not least his beloved daughter Marguerite, whose honesty and courage surmounted all ordeals, including interrogation and torture by the Gestapo in the Second World War. If you have ever wondered how anyone with such a tame public image as Matisse could have painted such rich, powerful, mysteriously moving pictures, let alone produced the radical cut-paper and stained-glass inventions of his last years, here is the answer. They were made by the real Matisse, whose true story has been written down at last from start to finish by his first biographer, Hilary Spurling.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679434291
ISBN-13
9780679434290
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45399610
Product Key Features
Book Title
Matisse the Master : Alife of Henri Matisse: the Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, European
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.8in
Item Width
7.2in
Item Weight
38.1 Oz
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N6853.M33s678 2005
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Reactions to Hilary Spurling's The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, vol. I, 1869-1908 published autumn 1998 by Knopf (US) & Penguin (UK) US REVIEWS 'Hilary Spurling has given us a definitive biography that reads like a detective story. It is an extraordinary and brilliant book . . . extraordinary in revealing . . . so much about Matisse that was previously unknown and unexpected . . . brilliant in the clarity and compactness of its prose and in the sharpness of the insights that appear on page after page . . . This is a truly indispensable biography . . . vividly drawn, utterly compelling and profoundly moving.' John Elderfield, Museum of Modern Art, New York. One can only eagerly await the second volume of Spurling's definitive biography of Henri Matisse. J. Carter Brown, Director of the National Gallery of Art,New York Times Book Review. Again and again the reader fears for Matisse, as in a good novel: how will he get out of this hole? who will buy his work? what if he gives up? . . . Her second volume cannot arrive too soon. Julian Barnes,New York Times Book Review 'This is a marvellous bookbeautifully written, masterly in its research and wonderfully wise in its depiction of character, circumstance and the vicissitudes of the artist's vocation.' Hilton Kremer,Washington Times 'Spurling brushes aside all our preconceptions about the painter to reveal a personalityand a personal historynone of us had guessed at. . . . This first volume of a full biography of Matisse is a triumph of research and writing, a work of literature worthy of its subject.' Richard Dorment,New York Review of Books The Unknown Matisseis aptly titled . . . Unlike the luckier and more charmed Picasso, Matisse was haunted by the specter of failure, poverty and ridicule, in part because heagain, unlike Picassoexperienced all three. . . . It's thrilling to learn what Matisse was looking at, what he experimented with, endured and suffered on the way to becoming one of the great painters of our century.' Francine Prose,Washington Post 'Her clear narrative keeps one turning the pages almost as if reading a novel . . . a major accomplishment and sure to be a landmark in the literature on Matisse.' Jack Flam,Art News 'This book is marvellous to read. Having finished it, one wants to start all over again.' Svetlana Alpers,Key Reporter 'An extraordinary new view of Matisse . . . When I first heard that Hilary Spurling was planning to write about Henri Matisse, I wondered what an English literary biographer could possibly tell me about my intensely French artist grandfather . . . The results are absolutely astonishing. For anyone interested in Matisse's work, this book will be a revelation . . . The book is almost like a mystery story, packed with surprising developments . . . Once started this is a very hard book to put down. I couldn't recommend it too highly.' Paul Matisse, Amazon online 'A smashing good biography . . . Hilary Spurling's role is advocate, and she is a formidable one . . . A painter's development is both an intimate and an open transaction, and Spurling makes us feel its peril.' Editors' Choice, Best Books of 1998,New York Times Book Review 'Spurling's book is the opposite of the massive bound collections of file cards that are biography's current fashion. . . . I do not know of another book which, while lavishly setting, Reactions to Hilary Spurling's The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, vol. I, 1869-1908 published autumn 1998 by Knopf (US) & Penguin (UK) US REVIEWS 'Hilary Spurling has given us a definitive biography that reads like a detective story. It is an extraordinary and brilliant book . . . extraordinary in revealing . . . so much about Matisse that was previously unknown and unexpected . . . brilliant in the clarity and compactness of its prose and in the sharpness of the insights that appear on page after page . . . This is a truly indispensable biography . . . vividly drawn, utterly compelling and profoundly moving.' John Elderfield, Museum of Modern Art, New York. One can only eagerly await the second volume of Spurling's definitive biography of Henri Matisse. J. Carter Brown, Director of the National Gallery of Art, New York Times Book Review. Again and again the reader fears for Matisse, as in a good novel: how will he get out of this hole? who will buy his work? what if he gives up? . . . Her second volume cannot arrive too soon. Julian Barnes, New York Times Book Review 'This is a marvellous bookbeautifully written, masterly in its research and wonderfully wise in its depiction of character, circumstance and the vicissitudes of the artist's vocation.' Hilton Kremer, Washington Times 'Spurling brushes aside all our preconceptions about the painter to reveal a personalityand a personal historynone of us had guessed at. . . . This first volume of a full biography of Matisse is a triumph of research and writing, a work of literature worthy of its subject.' Richard Dorment, New York Review of Books The Unknown Matisse is aptly titled . . . Unlike the luckier and more charmed Picasso, Matisse was haunted by the specter of failure, poverty and ridicule, in part because heagain, unlike Picassoexperienced all three. . . . It's thrilling to learn what Matisse was looking at, what he experimented with, endured and suffered on the way to becoming one of the great painters of our century.' Francine Prose, Washington Post 'Her clear narrative keeps one turning the pages almost as if reading a novel . . . a major accomplishment and sure to be a landmark in the literature on Matisse.' Jack Flam, Art News 'This book is marvellous to read. Having finished it, one wants to start all over again.' Svetlana Alpers, Key Reporter 'An extraordinary new view of Matisse . . . When I first heard that Hilary Spurling was planning to write about Henri Matisse, I wondered what an English literary biographer could possibly tell me about my intensely French artist grandfather . . . The results are absolutely astonishing. For anyone interested in Matisse's work, this book will be a revelation . . . The book is almost like a mystery story, packed with surprising developments . . . Once started this is a very hard book to put down. I couldn't recommend it too highly.' Paul Matisse, Amazon online 'A smashing good biography . . . Hilary Spurling's role is advocate, and she is a formidable one . . . A painter's development is both an intimate and an open transaction, and Spurling makes us feel its peril.' Editors' Choice, Best Books of 1998, New York Times Book Review 'Spurling's book is the opposite of the massive bound collections of file cards that are biography's current fashion. . . . I do not know of another book which, while
Copyright Date
2005
Target Audience
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2004-051074
Dewey Decimal
759.4 B
Dewey Edition
22
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