{"product_id":"matisse-cut-outs-40th-ed-9783836589192","title":"Matisse. Cut-Outs. 40th Ed.","description":"\u003cp\u003eToward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life--he was almost 80 years of age--he developed the technique of \"carving into color,\" creating bright, bold paper cut-outs. Though dismissed by some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these \u003cem\u003egouaches decoupées\u003c\/em\u003e (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a revolution in modern art, \u003cstrong\u003ea whole new medium that reimagined the age-old conflict between color and line\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This \u003cstrong\u003eedition of the first volume of our original award-winning XXL book\u003c\/strong\u003e provides a thorough historical context to Matisse's cut-outs, tracing their roots to his 1930 trip to Tahiti and continuing through to his final years in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, as well as some rare images by \u003cstrong\u003eHenri Cartier-Bresson\u003c\/strong\u003e and the filmmaker \u003cstrong\u003eF. W. Murnau\u003c\/strong\u003e, with texts by \u003cstrong\u003eMatisse\u003c\/strong\u003e, publisher \u003cstrong\u003eE. Tériade\u003c\/strong\u003e, the poets \u003cstrong\u003eLouis Aragon, Henri Michaux, \u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ePierre Reverdy\u003c\/strong\u003e, and Matisse's son-in-law \u003cstrong\u003eGeorges Duthuit\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs achieved both a \u003cstrong\u003esculptural quality and an early minimalist abstraction, which would profoundly influence generations of artists to come\u003c\/strong\u003e. Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale, these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse's lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNéret, Xavier-Gilles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Xavier-Gilles Néret taught philosophy of art and design at the ESAA Duperré and Université de Paris I Panthéon La Sorbonne. He studied the connections between philosophy and poetry with particular relation to Stéphane Mallarmé. He lives and works in Paris.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNéret, Gilles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Gilles Néret (1933-2005) was an art historian, journalist, writer, and museum correspondent. He organized several art retrospectives in Japan and founded the SEIBU Museum and the Wildenstein Gallery in Tokyo. He directed art reviews such as L'OEil and Connaissance des Arts and received the Élie Faure Prize in 1981 for his publications. His TASCHEN titles include Salvador Dalí The Paintings, Matisse, and Erotica Universalis.","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50625632829714,"sku":"9783836589192","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d9c2daa9-835a-4987-bfdf-e8653c2ea16f.jpg?v=1732634407","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/matisse-cut-outs-40th-ed-9783836589192","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}