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Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship (Icon Editions)
Jack Flam
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Description for Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship (Icon Editions)
Paperback. The parallel lives of two compelling and competitive artists and their recurrent engagements with desire and mortality Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 464.
Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. Matisse, known for his restraint and intense sense of privacy, for his decorum and discretion, created an art that transcended daily life and conveyed a sensuality that inhabited an abstract and ethereal realm of being. In contrast, Picasso became the exemplar of intense emotionality, of theatricality, of art as a kind of autobiographical confession that was often charged with violence and explosive eroticism. In Matisse and Picasso , Jack Flam ... Read more
Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. Matisse, known for his restraint and intense sense of privacy, for his decorum and discretion, created an art that transcended daily life and conveyed a sensuality that inhabited an abstract and ethereal realm of being. In contrast, Picasso became the exemplar of intense emotionality, of theatricality, of art as a kind of autobiographical confession that was often charged with violence and explosive eroticism. In Matisse and Picasso , Jack Flam ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780813390468
SKU
V9780813390468
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About Jack Flam
Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate centre of the City University of New York. He has written extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American art and his books include Matisse on Art, Matisse: the Man and His Art, 1869-1918, and Les peintures de Picasso: Un théâtre mental. He lectures ... Read more
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