- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Tate Publishing (31 May 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1854373927
- ISBN-13: 978-1854373922
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,278,463 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A kaleidoscope of information and ... beautiful shards of analysis."
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What a show and what a book. Two of the great heavyweights of twentieth century art meet over 15 rounds at the Tate Gallery.
The exhibition was put together with the obvious aim of selecting pictures designed to show the similarities as much as the differences between Picasso and Matisse and the book matches them image by image. What I found most fascinating was the way their styles and subjects wove round each other over the decades, sometimes so different and at others so similar that on one page you can't at a glance see who made which pencil sketch or painting and on another you know at once. A good collection of high class reproductions of many works, some familiar and some relatively unknown or hard to see. A must for the fan of these two painters.
And who won? That's for you to decide.
The exhibition was put together with the obvious aim of selecting pictures designed to show the similarities as much as the differences between Picasso and Matisse and the book matches them image by image. What I found most fascinating was the way their styles and subjects wove round each other over the decades, sometimes so different and at others so similar that on one page you can't at a glance see who made which pencil sketch or painting and on another you know at once. A good collection of high class reproductions of many works, some familiar and some relatively unknown or hard to see. A must for the fan of these two painters.
And who won? That's for you to decide.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Whew!
20 July 2004
Format:Hardcover
Huge, very heavy book of almost 400 pages. Wonderful reproductions in color of their work, and, for the most part, easily understood prose. I think I learned a lot. I know I learned that I like Picasso better than Matisse, whom I found to be basically cold and severe, too intellectual in his art. How he was personally this book does not say. You do get a little more sense of Picasso than Matisse. The book focuses on how these two artists played off each other's work almost all their artistic lives. And as such, it definitely succeeds. It was actually printed in conjunction with a major exhibition of these two, in Paris, London, and New York. A must for all art lovers.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Blockbuster
8 April 2007
Format:Hardcover
A blockbuster exhibition and a blockbuster catalogue. This book is hugely informative, very well organized, chronologically, with a constant comparison of both masters. Every masterpiece by Picasso is followed by one by Matisse and vice-versa. It is a break-through study on the mutual influence of both artists, an attempt once tried by the critic Yves-Alain Bois with less success. This book is required material for any arts library. The authors are all authorities in this particular field and vouch for the quality of the accompanying text.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Excellent
18 April 2008
Format:Hardcover
This is an excellent book with great reproductions of artwork. It also compares the two artist's. This is a good book for any artist to have.
It arrived as described in a timely manner.
It arrived as described in a timely manner.
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