Matisse, his art and his textiles : the fabric of dreams
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Matisse, his art and his textiles : the fabric of dreams
Royal Academy of Arts, c2004
- : hardback
- : pbk
Available at 11 libraries
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Exhibition catalogue
Catalogue of the exhibition held at Musée Matisse, le Cateau-Cambrésis, 23 Oct. 2004-25 Jan. 2005; The Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries Royal Academy of Arts, London, 5 March-30 May 2005; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 23 June-25 September 2005.
Bibliography: p. 208-209
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Matisse's ancestors had been weavers for generations: textiles, a key to his visual imagination, were in his blood. Although he was to outgrow every other influence, textiles retained their power for him throughout his life. His studio in Nice was a treasure house of exotic Persian carpets, delicate Arab embroideries, richly hued African wall hangings, and any number of colourful cushions, curtains, costumes, patterned screens and backcloths. This sumptuously illustrated book - the catalogue of a groundbreaking exhibition at the Musee Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambresis; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - explores for the first time Matisse's relationship with the textiles that surrounded him from his earliest days. Charting how the fabrics he painted became the very fabric of his painting, specialist authors examine the ways in which Matisse used what he called his 'working library' of textiles to furnish, order and compose some of the twentieth century's most pioneering works of art.
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