Henri Matisse: modernist against the grain

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Matisse : the man. 1.The media as medium : public self-portraits

2. "Brutal egotism" : Gertrude Stein's Matisse

II. Matisse : his work. 3. Strangers in paradise : Bathers by a river

4. Chamber music : Woman before an aquarium and Woman on a rose divan

Coda : some propositions concerning Matisse's art of the 1920s

III. Matisse : his critics. 5. A formalist critique : a dance critic looks at Matisse : Andrâe Levinson in 1929

6. A vitalist critique : decoration and spirituality : the Byzantine/Islamic Matisse

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index.