Yale University Press: Posing Modernity began as a term paper that became a dissertation and has now become both an exhibition and a book. What changes or shifts in focus have you encountered since you started the project? Denise Murrell: The main change was to shape the initially academic project
Yale UP: What did “decoration” mean to Matisse? John Klein: Many times Matisse said or wrote that his main goal in making art was expression. He didn’t mean expressing emotions – anger, joy, fear, etc. Instead he meant that an artwork should convey the inner life of its artist in
Follow @yaleARTbooks The exhibition Matisse: In Search of True Painting explores Matisse’s practice of producing pairs of paintings, and the ways in which this practice influenced his development as artist. Academically trained, Matisse learned composition and technique by copying older master paintings. This practice was not considered an empty, rote
Back this week with more interesting YUP-related links from the Twitterverse: @LDWeinberg‘s link to a cheat sheet for Matisse: Radical Invention was passed around by several art enthusiasts. @TorontoSymphony placed Sibelius in an unlikely locale as part of an online contest. @arbitrix and @vitamingc checked in from Ken Chen’s book