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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Editor | Kunsthaus Zürich |
Publisher | Scheidegger & Spiess |
Year | 2019 |
Cover | Paperback with flaps |
Language | French |
ISBN | 978-3-85881-840-9 |
Pages | 232 |
Weight | 1020 g |
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Author(s) | Sandra Gianfreda, Claudine Grammont, Gaku Kondo et al. |
Type of book | Exhib'publication |
Museum / Place | Kunsthaus Zürich |
Article ID | art-60350 |
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) is adored worldwide as a revolutionary painter and loved for his collages, or papiers découpés, the icons of his late work. His work in painting and drawing for a long time overshadowed his achievements as a sculptor. Yet his Back Series, four bas-reliefs created between 1908 and 1930, are revered as a milestone in modern sculpture. Starting out from a naturalistic depiction, Matisse gradually transformed it to reach a radically abstracted figure. Each of the four original plaster casts represents a decisive moment of this artistic process.
This transformative process has parallels in Matisse’s painting and drawing. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at Kunsthaus Zürich marking the artist’s 150th anniversary, this German language book is the first to explore the relation between metamorphosis and feedback in both main fields of the artist’s work. His diverse sources of inspiration for his sculptures—photographs of nudes, examples from African and ancient art—as well as photographs featuring Matisse at work as sculptor, round out this volume. It is a welcome addition to any art library, highlighting the lesser known side of this modern master.