Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and
lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and
use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life-he was
almost 80 years of age-he developed the technique of "carving into
color," creating bright, bold paper cut-outs. Though dismissed by
some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these
gouaches decoupees (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a
revolution in modern art, a whole new medium that reimagined the
age-old conflict between color and line. This edition of the first
volume of our original award-winning XXL book provides a thorough
historical context to Matisse's cut-outs, tracing their roots to
his 1930 trip to Tahiti and continuing through to his final years
in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, as well as some rare
images by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the filmmaker F. W. Murnau,
with texts by Matisse, publisher E. Teriade, the poets Louis
Aragon, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse's son-in-law
Georges Duthuit. In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs
achieved both a sculptural quality and an early minimalist
abstraction, which would profoundly influence generations of
artists to come. Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale,
these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and
innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse's lifetime.
About the series TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as
cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with
accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate
their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an
unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books
by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new
editions of some of the stars of our program-now more compact,
friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to
impeccable production.
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