中文简介：

在生命的最后阶段，Henri Matisse被禁锢在轮椅上，重新塑造了自己。这本新版书关注Matisse明亮、大胆的剪纸作品，他用这些作品创造了一种新的艺术媒介。通过Henri Cartier-Bresson和F. W. Murnau的珍贵照片，以及超现实主义作家Louis Aragon和马蒂斯本人的文字，来探索这段历史。

用剪刀画画

马蒂斯后期的革命性作品

在作为画家、雕塑家和石版画家的不朽生涯即将结束时，年老多病的Matisse无法长时间站立和使用画笔。在这个后期阶段，他已经快80岁了，他采用了“彩色雕刻”的技术，创造出明亮、大胆的剪纸作品。虽然一些当代评论家认为这是一个耄耋老人的愚蠢行为，但这些水粉剪纸实际上代表了现代艺术的一场革命，一种全新的媒介，重新想象了色彩和线条之间的可能性。

本书为Matisse的剪纸作品提供了全面的历史背景，追溯到他1930年的大溪地之旅，并一直持续到他在尼斯的最后几年。书中包括许多Matisse的照片，以及Henri Cartier-Bresson和电影制片人F. W. Murnau的一些罕见图片，还有Matisse、出版商E.Tériade、诗人Louis Aragon、Henri Michaux和Pierre Reverdy，以及Matisse的女婿Georges Duthuit的文字。

在简单的外表下，这些剪纸作品实现了雕塑般的质量和早期的极简主义抽象，这将深刻地影响未来几代艺术家。这些作品热情洋溢、色彩丰富、规模宏大，是20世纪艺术的真正支柱，在今天看来，它们与Matisse生前一样大胆、创新。

编者

Xavier-Gilles Néret在巴黎生活和工作，在巴黎杜佩雷高等应用艺术学院和巴黎**大学教授艺术和设计哲学，研究艺术、哲学和诗歌之间的联系。他的著作主要研究了Bernard Saby、Daisuke Ichiba、Pakito Bolino、Anne van der Linden等人。此外，他还创作了一篇关于图形杂志的理论文章。

Gilles Néret（1933-2005）是一位艺术史学家、记者、作家和博物馆记者。他在日本组织了几个艺术回顾展，并在东京建立了SEIBU博物馆和Wildenstein画廊。他指导了《L'Œil》和《Connaissance des Arts》等艺术评论，并因其出版物获得了1981年的Élie Faure奖。他在TASCHEN的作品包括《萨尔瓦多·达利：绘画》、《亨利·马蒂斯》和《情色世界》。

亨利·马蒂斯 剪裁【40周年纪念版】

Xavier-Gilles Néret，Gilles Néret

精装，6.1 x 8.5英寸，2.24磅，412页

ISBN 978-3-8365-8919-2

语言版本：英语

英文简介：

Confined to a wheelchair towards the end of his life, Henri Matisse reinvented himself. This new edition looks at the bright, bold cut-outs with which he created a new medium of art. Discover the history in rare photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson and F. W. Murnau, and with texts by surrealist writer Louis Aragon and Matisse himself.

Drawing with Scissors

Matisse's revolutionary late-period work

Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life—he was almost 80 years of age—he developed the technique of “carving into color,” creating bright, bold paper cut-outs. Though dismissed by some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these gouaches decoupées (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a revolution in modern art, a whole new medium that reimagined the age-old conflict between color and line.

This edition of the first volume of our original award-winning XXL book provides a thorough historical context to Matisse's cut-outs, tracing their roots to his 1930 trip to Tahiti and continuing through to his final years in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, as well as some rare images by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the filmmaker F. W. Murnau, with texts by Matisse, publisher E. Tériade, the poets Louis Aragon, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse's son-in-law Georges Duthuit.

In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs achieved both a sculptural quality and an early minimalist abstraction, which would profoundly influence generations of artists to come. Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale, these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse's lifetime.

The editors

Xavier-Gilles Néret teaches philosophy of art and design at the École Duperré Paris and University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He studies the connections between art, philosophy, and poetry. His publications include works on Bernard Saby, Daisuke Ichiba, Pakito Bolino, Anne van der Linden and a theoretical essay on graphzines. He lives and works in Paris.

Gilles Néret (1933–2005) was an art historian, journalist, writer, and museum correspondent. He organized several art retrospectives in Japan and founded the SEIBU Museum and the Wildenstein Gallery in Tokyo. He directed art reviews such as L'Œil and Connaissance des Arts and received the Élie Faure Prize in 1981 for his publications. His TASCHEN titles include Salvador Dalí: The Paintings, Matisse, and Erotica Universalis.

Matisse. Cut-outs. 40th Ed.

Xavier-Gilles Néret, Gilles Néret

Hardcover, 6.1 x 8.5 in., 2.24 lb, 412 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-8919-2

Edition: English