Matisse And Picasso. The Story Of Their Rivalry And Friendship

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 276 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. Matisse, known for his restraint and intense sense of privacy, for his decorum and discretion, created an art that transcended daily life and conveyed a sensuality that inhabited an abstract and ethereal realm of being. In contrast, Picasso became the exemplar of intense emotionality, of theatricality, of art as a kind of autobiographical confession that was often charged with violence and explosive eroticism. In Matisse and Picasso, Jack Flam explores the compelling, competitive, parallel lives of these two artists and their very different attitudes toward the idea of artistic greatness, toward the women they loved, and ultimately toward their confrontations with death.

ISBN: 9780813365817