Chronicles the competition and mutual respect shared by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, with details of their divergent but equally passionate and influential lives.

Product Description: This book is the first to bring together texts documenting the encounter between Western artists and writers and what has historically been called primitive art--the traditional, indigenous arts of Africa, Oceania, and North America...read more

Product Description: The Cone sisters, Claribel and Etta, acquired their first Matisse in 1906 and, during the next four decades, went on to form one of the world's great collections of his art. The Cone Collection not only contains major works from every phase of Matisse's long career but also reflects the sisters' special interest in his Nice period, when a new complexity of form and psychology entered the ever-intense surface allure of his paintings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "New York Collects" includes 140 drawings by 82 artists from private collections in and around New York. The book provides an overview of drawing on both sides of the Atlantic during the first half of the 20th century and explores the development of the medium during a 50-year period of unprecedented stylistic diversity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This lavishly illustrated monograph accompanied a retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. An intimate account of Rothschild's life, based on her journals, with a critical survey of her abstract paintings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson's significance as a spokesman for a generation of artists has been widely acknowledged and the importance of his thinking to contemporary artists and art critics continues to grow...read more

Product Description: The major writings of Henri Matisse (1869-1954), with the exception of the letters, are collected here along with transcriptions of important interviews and broadcasts given at various stages of Matisse's career. Jack Flam provides a biography, a general introduction that addresses the development of Matisse's aesthetic values and theories, and a critical introduction for each text...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This anthology contains the major writings of Henri Matisse, along with the transcripts of important interviews and broadcasts given at various stages of Matisse's career. There is also an introduction which addresses the development of Matisse's aesthetic values and artistic theories...read more

Discusses Diebenkorn's life and work, and reproduces a selection of his paintings