中文简介：

本书首次深入研究知名艺术家Henri Matisse1930年代的作品，这是Matisse创作创新的关键十年。

1930年，Henri Matisse（1869-1954）开始创作壁画《舞蹈》，这是美国收藏家Albert C. Barnes委托其创作的巨幅壁画，Matisse开始尝试新的艺术实践。使用预先画好的剪纸来布置他的构图，形成了一种新的风格——扁平的色调、大胆的形状。他还越来越多地使用系列图像来展示他的创作过程，目的是在艺术作品中捕捉他自己的感知和情感的变化。

本书突出并解释了Matisse在20世纪30年代在一系列创作中的关键转变，包括壁画和架上绘画、雕塑、版画、素描和插图书。作者们还研究了Matisse和巴黎艺术杂志《Cahiers d'art》之间的关系，该杂志在宣传Matisse这一时期的作品方面发挥了巨大的作用。书中还展示了Matisse的展览、他对装饰画的持续参与、他的创意实验室工作室，以及他的模特和缪斯Lydia Delectorskaya在其工作室实践中的作用。

英文简介：

The first in-depth examination of Matisse's work in the 1930s, a key decade of creative innovation and renewal for this celebrated artist

In 1930, as Henri Matisse (1869–1954) embarked on The Dance, a monumental mural commissioned by the American collector Albert C. Barnes, he began experimenting in ways that would permanently change the nature of his work. The use of pre-painted cut papers to lay out his compositions led to a new style of flat tones and bold shapes. He also increasingly used serial imagery to make visible his creative process, aiming to capture the flux of his own perceptions and emotions in the work of art.

This volume highlights and explains pivotal transformations in Matisse's work in the 1930s across a range of media, including mural and easel painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, and the illustrated book. The transatlantic contributors also look at the relationship between Matisse and the Parisian art journal Cahiers d'art, which played an outsized role in publicizing Matisse's work during this period, and consider his exhibitions, his ongoing involvement with decorative painting, his studio as a creative laboratory, and the role of his model and muse Lydia Delectorskaya in his studio practice.