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Pleasuring Painting: Matisse's Feminine Representations (Twenty-Seventh of the Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures) Hardcover - 1996
by Elderfield, John
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- Title Pleasuring Painting: Matisse's Feminine Representations (Twenty-Seventh of the Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures)
- Author Elderfield, John
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 64
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Thames & Hudson, London
- Date 1996
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # SIN0010384
- ISBN 9780500550281 / 050055028X
- Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8.46 x 6.36 x 0.61 in (21.49 x 16.15 x 1.55 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Matisse, Henri - Criticism and interpretation, Women in art
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95061353
- Dewey Decimal Code 759.4
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From the rear cover
In 1913, outraged by Henri Matisse's painterly violations of the female body, students of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago found him guilty of "artistic murder" and "rapine" and proceeded to burn in effigy three of his works, including the Blue Nude of 1907. Since that time, Matisse's paintings of women have remained a source of deep controversy. In Pleasuring Painting, John Elderfield skillfully picks his way through the knotty politics of painterly pleasure, tracing the development of Matisse's feminine representations from Carmelina of 1903/4 through to the odalisques of the Nice period of the 1920s, offering a startling reinterpretation of some of the artist's best-known works. The author shows that Matisse was not, as his legend suggests, simply a painter of quintessentially male pleasures, but rather one who used his female models as a means of self-analysis and identification.