Table of Contents

Introduction: Between Moderism and Tradition 7 Part 1: Me Tis Chapter 1: Painting and the Ready-Made Pastiche at the 1905 Saklon des Independants 17 Chapter 2: "Trouble Retinien" Fauvism, Madness, and the Schizophrenic Eye 55 Part II: Metis Chapter 3: Modern(ist) Memories Le Bonheur de vivre and the Stimulus of Tradition 93 Chapter 4: Negative Dialectics Matisse and the decoratif at the 1910 Salon d'Autimne 131 Part III: Metisse Chapter 5: Miscegenations Nu bleu and the Collapsing of Difference 163 Chapter 6: Seeing Difference Looking Otherwise at marisse's Morocco 193 Conclusion 220 Notes 228 Acknowledgments 273 Bibliography 274 Index 282 Copyright and Photography Credits 288

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This book offers fresh insights and interpretations and uncovers new critical materials while utilizing novel theoretical perspectives. It will be essential reading not only for all scholars of Matisse and of Fauvism and early-twentieth-century art, but also readers with an interest in French cultural history and pre-World War I society. Art historians who seek models for utilizing contemporary criticism and theoretical perspectives in connection with studies of individual works will also find much of value here. -- Tamar Garb, University College London Complex and ambitious, this book will be

About the Author

Alastair Wright is Assistant Professor of Art History at Princeton University.

Reviews

A book like Alastair Wright's Matisse and the Subject of Modernism is enough to rekindle my faith in the future of art history as a discipline... [I]t manages to cast entirely new light on Matisse's best-known works of the period from 1905-13. -- Yve-Alain Bois ArtForum