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Henri Matisse

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Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.

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In 1944-45, the publication of a series, "The Anthropologist Looks at Jazz," in the American Record Changer, stimulated a considerable amount of controversy and further thought on the subject of the roots of jazz among historians throughout the world.

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Matisse

1995

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Matisse, Father & Son, a revealing and moving biography, is based upon exclusive access to several thousand unpublished letters in the archives of Pierre Matisse. These include more than 800 letters, many of them twelve or thirteen pages long, between Pierre Matisse and his father. They also include a vast correspondence with the European artists whom Pierre Matisse represented during his sixty years as an art dealer in New York. But this is more than a book of letters, John Russell, former chief art critic for The New York Times, has produced a seamless narrative that moves easily back and forth between private life and professional life. The heart of this absorbing biography is the near daily correspondence between father and son over three decades. Mining thousands of letters in which nothing is held back - and including photos of family and friends, as well as significant works handled by Pierre Matisse - John Russell offers us an insider's view into the lives and creative efforts of some of the century's most important artists.

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Henri Matisse paper cut-outs

1977

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"Since its original publication in 1977, this well-balanced and beautifully illustrated book has been accepted as the standard one-volume history of jazz. Now in recognition of the many new developments in jazz over the last two decades, author Frank Tirro has expanded the text to cover the most recent jazz styles and to treat such latter-day giants as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Wynton Marsalis. He has also revised the entire volume to incorporate the welter of recent jazz research and new insights into the field.". "Writing in a lively, easy style, Tirro examines the complex relationship between jazz and the social environment that both fostered and resisted its development. He begins by describing the roots of jazz in Africa and the state of music in late-nineteenth-century America. Juxtaposing these two significant preconditions, he then embarks on a systematic exploration of the musical phenomenon known as jazz: ragtime, blues, swing, bebop, cool jazz, third stream, modal, free jazz, fusion, new wave, and numerous other forms. Tirro deals with every major style, trend, and artist, delineating the most important movements, describing their greatest moments, and transmitting his infectious enthusiasm for the genre in both musical and analytical terms.". "The narrative is enlivened throughout by references to the music itself, and many specific works are discussed in depth. The text is keyed to a compact disc containing twenty representative pieces that illustrate major trends in jazz through the ages. Hundreds of additional recordings are meticulously cited, and a selective discography catches up on recently issued compact discs."--BOOK JACKET.

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