The "Wild Beasts" - Fauvism and Its Affinities

Fülszöveg

' Ví.11; ' %
,r;M
M-
ÜiüiL-.i'. :::
168 pages 206 illustrations (24 in color) $7.95
The "Wild Beasts": Fauvism and Its Affinities John Elderfield
At the Salon d'Automne of 1905, a conservative, quattrocentolike sculpture exhibited among the vividly colored paintings of Matisse. Derain, Vlaminck, and their friends provoked the critic Louis Vauxcelles to comment, "Among the orgy of pure colors: Donatello among the wild beasts" ("chez les fauves"). Fauvism was thus publicly born.
The first of the great aesthetic movements of the twentieth century, Fauvism remains in many ways the least understood. This book provides a clear definition of Fauvism—as a movement, a group, and a style—describing its origins and development, the philosophies and intellectual backgrounds of the Fauvist painters, and the works of art they produced. Discussed in detail here is the Fauve work of Matisse, Derain,
and Vlaminck—the principal artists of the movement—as well as that of Dufy, Braque,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

' Ví.11; ' %
,r;M
M-
ÜiüiL-.i'. :::
168 pages 206 illustrations (24 in color) $7.95
The "Wild Beasts": Fauvism and Its Affinities John Elderfield
At the Salon d'Automne of 1905, a conservative, quattrocentolike sculpture exhibited among the vividly colored paintings of Matisse. Derain, Vlaminck, and their friends provoked the critic Louis Vauxcelles to comment, "Among the orgy of pure colors: Donatello among the wild beasts" ("chez les fauves"). Fauvism was thus publicly born.
The first of the great aesthetic movements of the twentieth century, Fauvism remains in many ways the least understood. This book provides a clear definition of Fauvism—as a movement, a group, and a style—describing its origins and development, the philosophies and intellectual backgrounds of the Fauvist painters, and the works of art they produced. Discussed in detail here is the Fauve work of Matisse, Derain,
and Vlaminck—the principal artists of the movement—as well as that of Dufy, Braque, Friesz, Marquet, Manguin, and van Dongen. Numerous reproductions complement the author's incisive text, which includes analyses of many of the paintings. Extensive notes and a bibliography complete the volume.
As a Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, John Elderfield directed the exhibition "The 'Wild Beasts': Fauvism and Its Affinities'.' He is the author of Morris Louis and the editor of Art and the Russian Revolution and Hugo Ball's The Flight out of Time, and has contributed to numerous periodicals, including Studio International and Artforum, where he served as Contributing Editor for a number of years.
The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street, New York, N.Y. 10019 Distributed by Oxford University Press, New York, Toronto Vissza