The Fauve Landscape

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990. 350 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Published in conjunction with a travelling exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 4 to December 30, 1990; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 19 to May 5, 1991; and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 10 to September 1, 1991. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This text is devoted to the colourful landscapes produced during the Fauvist period of 1904-1908. An essay on the emergence of the Fauve landscape is followed by four essays devoted to individual sites and such topics as Fauvism's impact on tourism and politics. Another essay concentrates on the critical landscape, in essence the critics' reception of these paintings. Matisse, Braque, Derain, Vlaminck, Dufy, Marquet, Manguin and Friesz are represented with examples of their works." - Publisher. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This text is devoted to the colourful landscapes produced during the Fauvist period of 1904-1908. An essay on the emergence of the Fauve landscape is followed by four essays devoted to individual sites and such topics as Fauvism's impact on tourism and politics. Another essay concentrates on the critical landscape, in essence the critics' reception of these paintings. Matisse, Braque, Derain, Vlaminck, Dufy, Marquet, Manguin and Friesz are represented with examples of their works." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Earl A. Powell III; Surveying the terrain: the Fauves and the landscape, by Judi Freeman; Documentary chronology: 1904-1908, by Judi Freeman; New lessons from the School of Chatou: Derain and Vlaminck in the Paris suburbs, by John Klein; Painters and tourists: Matisse and Derain on the Mediterranean shore, by James D. Herbert; Far from the earth of France: the Fauves abroad, by Judi Freeman; The distant cousins in Normandy: Braque, Dufy, and Friesz, by Alvin Martin and Judi Freeman; Fauves in the landscape of criticism: metaphor and scandal at the Salon, by Roger Benjamin.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.