Henri Matisse : the cut-outs /
Cut-outs.
edited by Karl Buchberg, Nicholas Cullinan, Jodi Hauptman, and Nicholas Serota ; essays by Karl Buchberg [and seven others].
- 298 pages (some folded) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs held at Tate Modern, London, April 17-September 7, 2014 and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 25, 2014-February 9, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The studio as site and subject / Karl Buchberg, Nicholas Cullinan, Jodi Hauptman, and Nicholas Serota -- Inventing a new operation / Jodi Hauptman -- 'An agreeable distraction' / Nicholas Cullinan -- In the studio: a photo essay -- Avant la lettre / Samantha Friedman -- Game and endgame / Samantha Friedman -- Chapel factory / Flavia Frigeri -- Bodies and waves / Jodi Hauptman -- Chromatic composition / Nicholas Cullinan -- Materials and techniques / Karl Buchberg, Markus Gross, and Stephan Lohrengel -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- List of exhibited works -- Index -- Acknowledgements -- Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art.
Reconsiders the cut-outs, including the materials and methods, the artist's environmental ambiitions for them, tensions between art and decoration and between drawing and color.