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Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 512 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
It is hard to believe today that Matisse was once almost universally reviled and ridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat; he simply pushed on from one innovation to the next, and left the world to draw its own conclusions. Unfortunately, these were generally false and often damaging. Throughout his life and afterward people fantasized about his models and circulated baseless fabrications about his private life. Fifty years after...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and work of the turn-of-the-twentieth-century French artist Henri Matisse, imagining his art-inspired childhood and growth into becoming one of the most admired artists in the world.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 470L
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived in a dreary town in northern France, what would your life be like? Would it be full of color and art? Full of lines and dancing figures? Find out in this beautiful, unusual picture book about one of the world's most famous and influential artists by acclaimed author and Newbery Medal-winning Patricia MacLachlan and innovative illustrator Hadley Hooper.
9) Matisse
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.
Language
English
10) Henri Matisse
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Steady, industrious work and a constant seeking and reevaluation of his remarkable art marked Henri Matisse's long life and career. His continued struggles with self-expression gave to the world, over some six decades, a wealth of new visions in line, color, and form. With the exception of Pablo Picasso, no other artist has so profoundly and single-handedly influenced the direction of modern art. This volume celebrates the life and work of this extraordinary...
11) Matisse
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
13) Henri's scissors
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Henri Matisse was a boy, he drew pictures everywhere. And when he grew up, he became a famous artist whose paintings were beloved around the world. Them late in life, a serious illness confined Henri to just his bed and a wheelchair. But amazingly, from there he created some of his finest works , the enormous and breathtaking paper cut-outs."--Jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xvi, 365 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre ... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills-- artificial and real-- and in the cafes and cabarets of Montmartre during the first decade of the century. The cross-fertilization...
Publisher
Los Angeles County Museum of Art/DelMonico Books:Prestel
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
295 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"This groundbreaking examination of the cultural exchange between early 20th century French and German artists illuminates new ways of understanding the development of Expressionism."--publisher.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Sterling edition.
Lexile measure
1090L
Physical Desc
87 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"Take a wonderful journey through time to discover the story of paintings, from Stone Age cave art to the graffiti-inspired work of Jean-Michel Basquiat."--Back cover.
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