Matisse

The substance of things; Moreau´s way - the passage through feeling; the god in time; the influence of others; Japonisme at last...; if Cezanne is right, I am right; the revelation of the Orient; the logic in purity; only by colour; la joie de vivre; a time of cosmogony; the family prerogative; the mechanism of the picture; to do two things at once; goldfish, studios, windows; paradise and hell; th erichness of nothingness; Michelangelo in the harem; I would take some clay...; the hand and the arrow; at the temple gates; in light and space.
Written by a foremost authority on Matisse, this book traces the evolution of his art from the sombre palette of his first works in the 1890s, through his Fauvism, drawings and sculpture, to the dazzling paper cut-outs of his final years. The text is backed by over 900 representative illustrations