Matisse's sculpture : the pinup and the primitive /

"In 1906, soon after Matisse acquired his first African sculpture, he began the first of his nudes based on erotic and ethnographic photographs. This reading of Matisse's early sculpture examines the artist's appropriations from two seemingly disparate visions of the body: commercial...

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Author / Contributor: McBreen, Ellen
Imprint: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Format: Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • A chronology of Matisse's photo-based Primitivism
  • Introduction
  • Nude photography and the appearance of art
  • L'Humanité Féminine and the origins of difference
  • The terra firma of photography
  • Sexualities of an imagined Africa
  • African sculpture: the anti-commodity
  • Conclusion.