Matisse portraits / John Klein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, John, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954--Criticism and interpretation.

Matisse, Henri.

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954.

Portrait painting, French--20th century.

Portrait painting, French.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 289 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2001]

Contents:

Introduction: The Social Agency of Portraiture 1

What is a portrait? 2

Portraiture and society 3

Representing identity 4

The portrait and self-portrait in modernism 7

Portraiture redefined 10

The limits of self-portraiture 13

Portraits and self-portraits in the Matisse literature 14

1 The Eternal Conflict of Representation and Expression 17

History of fiction? 18

What Matisse said about portraiture 19

Abstraction and archetype 25

Particular and general 28

The portrait, the individual, and the group 29

Caricature versus collective identity 31

2 Self before Other 35

Displacement 35

Secret agency 37

Passive reading, active looking 40

The model of Caroline Joblaud 43

Determining the self in art 44

Performing an artist 46

The self-portrait as a beginning text 54

A second mirror stage 56

Willed fragments 58

3 Private Lives in Public Spaces 63

Expanding the field of identity 63

Self-portraiture and autobiography 64

Amelie Matisse, wife and mother 66

Amelie as a model 68

Portrait or caricature? 72

Woman with the Hat and the risks of social instability 74

Social status and representation 76

"The Green Line" and the assertion of coherence 78

"The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive" 82

Masking individuality 84

Family portraits and "the sense of assimilated secrets" 88

The decorative turn against intimacy 90

Marguerite Matisse from gosse d'atelier to fashion plate 94

Learning and mastery 96

Pierre Matisse and the clock turned back 103

Coda: the next generation 107

4 The Image of Creativity 111

Choosing friends 111

The social studio 113

Competing individualities 115

The public context 115

Emulating patronage 116

Marquet and Derain (and Cezanne) 120

Terrus and the telluric drive 123

Family matters 125

Declaration of independence 128

Portraiture, mortality, and collective consciousness 130

Music and war 133

Vieux camarades 137

Literary homages 138

Aragon and signs 140

Portraits and immortality 142

5 Negotiating Identity 145

From private life to the public sphere 145

The social transaction of portraiture 147

Challenging tradition 148

The Steins and family values 149

Greta Moll and Veronese's arms 153

Portrait and pattern 158

Themes of process and growth 160

Patrons from East and West 164

Shy sitter, ruthless artist 166

An expressive Parisian actress 169

The self in others 170

Pellerin between Renoir and Cezanne 175

Portraits and career advancement 181

Forming a professional image 184

Drawings for patrons old and new 187

6 Self-Portraiture and Self-Promotion 193

Private withdrawal, public recognition 193

Limited release 196

Special delivery 197

Reflections on loss of wholeness 199

The face of public relations 200

The self-portrait in the age of mechanical reproduction 204

Preface to Themes et variations 208

Drawing and diagnostics 210

Role-playing and humor 212

7 The Problem of the Model 219

Leaving the social 219

The hybrid family 221

Back to the future 223

The conflict between portrait and decoration 227

Clothes make the woman 231

Man and the sufficient self 233

Reading the gender of portraiture 234

Study of a model, or portrait? 236

Shifters 239

Transcending the modeling transaction 242

Conclusion: Signing Off: The End of the Portrait 249

Variations on a theme 249

Typical and individual 250

Transcending the portrait 253.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-282) and index.

ISBN:

0300081006

OCLC:

46420156