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His books delve deeply into the nuances of artists like Cézanne, Manet, and Matisse, blending rigorous scholarship with accessible prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect richly detailed studies that illuminate the context and significance of pivotal artworks, making this collection an essential resource for anyone interested in \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e and art history.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cezanne-portraits-by-john-elderfield-9781855145474","title":"Cézanne Portraits","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book, like the exhibition it accompanies, looks at the special pictorial and thematic characteristics of Cézanne's portraiture practice, including his creation of complementary pairs and multiple versions of the same subject. The chronological development of the artist's portraiture is also explored, with an examination of the changes that occurred with respect to his style and method, on the one hand, and his understanding of resemblance and identity, on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe extent to which particular sitters inflected the characteristics and development of his practice is also considered. \u003cem\u003eCézanne Portraits\u003c\/em\u003e features works that mutually inform each other to reveal arguably the most personal, and therefore most human, aspect of his art, and one that has hitherto received surprisingly little attention. They range from Cézanne's earliest surviving self-portraits, dating from the 1860s, through to his final portraits of Vallier, the gardener at his house near Aix-en-Provence, made shortly before the artist's death in 1906.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExhibition curator John Elderfield contributes an illuminating introductory essay on Cézanne's portraiture, while the artist's biographer, the late Alex Danchev, provides an informative dramatis personae on the sitters featured. The catalogue texts are by John Elderfield, Mary Morton, and Xavier Rey, and a chronology by Jayne Warman sets the artist's work in the context of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383596826860,"sku":"9781855145474","price":85.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13924823482848.jpg?v=1773377392"},{"product_id":"matisse-by-stephanie-dalessandro-9780300177244","title":"Matisse","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA major reassessment of a critical moment in the work of one of the 20th century’s most important artists\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe works that Henri Matisse (1869–1954) executed between late 1913 and 1917 are among his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic. Often sharply composed, heavily reworked, and dominated by the colours black and grey, these compositions are rigorously abstracted and purged of nearly all descriptive detail. Although they have typically been treated as unrelated to one another, as aberrations within the artist’s oeuvre, or as singular responses to Cubism or World War I, \u003cem\u003eMatisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the deep connections among them and their critical role in an ambitious, cohesive project that took the act of creation itself as its main focus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book represents the first sustained examination of Matisse’s output from this important period, revealing fascinating information about his working method, experimental techniques, and compositional choices uncovered through extensive new historical, technical, and scientific research. The lavishly illustrated volume is published to accompany a major exhibition consisting of approximately 125 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints. 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These works are rarely shown together, and in fact cannot be seen in their entirety, since one of them exists only in fragments. However, the three intact paintings and the surviving elements of the fourth are reproduced in this publication, and will be shown at The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition in the fall of 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaximilian's death was an event of great public interest in France, in part because French policies shared the responsibility for it. A European aristocrat of the Hapsburg family, Maximilian had been installed in 1864 after a trio of European powers, led by Napoleon III of France, mounted an invasion of Mexico to reclaim debts upon which the Mexican government had suspended payment. But Napoleon soon withdrew, abandoning Maximilian to his fate at the hands of a resurgent Mexican army.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs news of the execution reached Paris, Manet reacted with a group of works synthesising the information as it came to him and drawing heavily on an earlier painting inspired by violent political events, Goya's \u003cem\u003eThe Third of May\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to analysing and documenting the creation of these works, John Elderfield, in his text, clarifies their historical importance in the context of modern art, and in so doing, offers a capsular history of the place of current events in art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596881445100,"sku":"9780870704239","price":41.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6b699a0479d80960fafd53788719f33e.jpg?v=1777955620"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/john-elderfield.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}