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Fauvism - fōˈvĭzəm [Fr. fauve=wild beast], name derisively hurled at and cheerfully adopted by a group of French painters, including Matisse, Rouault, Derain, Vlaminck, Friesz, Marquet, van Dongen, Braque, and Dufy. Although fauvism was a short-lived movement (1905–8), its influence was international and basic to the evolution of 20th-century


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    The Fauves » Read Now

    by Jean-Paul Crespelle. 351 pgs.

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    ...Chapter II The sources of Fauvism 29 Chapter III The studio...Chapter VII Death and resurrection of Fauvism 297 Chapter VIII The...the important movements in modern art:...
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    Fauvism: Biographical and Critical Study » Read Now

    by Jean Leymari, James Emmons. 164 pgs.

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    ...LEYMARIE Translated by James Emmons Fauvism SKIRA Title page: Henri Matisse...early impressionist style and takes to Fauvism. Kirchner discovers Negro art and...
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    Matisse: A Portrait of the Artist and the Man » Read Now

    by Raymond Escholier, Geraldine Colville, H. M. Colville. 226 pgs.

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    ...in what spirit the future author of Fauvism followed Delacroix, Cezanne and Renoir...and his burial in Montmartre Cemetery. Fauvism was then at its height. It was...
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    Henri Matisse: A Bio-bibliography » Read Now

    by Russell T. Clement. 418 pgs.

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    The elegant Matisse retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art in the fall of 1992 was the first king-sized retrospective of Matisse's work anywhere in the world for more than twenty years. Appropriately labelled "the most beautiful show in the world," this giant new look at Matisse and his...
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    Vlaminck » Read Now

    by Klaus G. Perls. 76 pgs.

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    ...his friends liked the designation and so Fauvism became the accepted name for their theory...gone in different directions, away from fauvism and towards the development of...
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    Derain » Read Now

    by Malcolm Vaughan. 80 pgs.

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    Rouault: Biographical and Critical Study » Read Now

    by Lionello Venturi, James Emmons. 144 pgs.

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    Dufy: Biographical and Critical Studies » Read Now

    by Jacques Lassaigne. 124 pgs.

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    Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940: A-L (Discussion of Fauvism begins on p. 50) » Read Now

    by Patrick H. Hutton, Amanda S. Bourque, Amy J. Staples. 594 pgs.

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    "[The volume] achieve[s] high marks in scholarship, factual content, organization, and ease of use." Reference Books Bulletin
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    A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art (Discussion of Fauvism begins on p. 205) » Read Now

    by Ian Chilvers. 670 pgs.

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    From Renoir and Picasso to Red Grooms and Guerrilla Girls, this is the most useful reference work on twentieth-century art available in a one volume. Compiled by Ian Chilvers, the editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Art, it is both authoritative and accessible, with generous use of anecdote and clear...
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    A Dictionary of Modern Painting (Discussion of Fauvism begins on p. 99) » Read Now

    by Carlton Lake, Robert Maillard. 330 pgs.

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    ...the second non-representational art. Fauvism * and Cubism * certainly favoured...tendencies which Kandinsky inherited from Fauvism and Expressionism, crystallized the...
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    Gateway to the Twentieth Century: Art and Culture in a Changing World (Discussion of Fauvism begins on p. 59) » Read Now

    by Jean Cassou, Emil Langui, Nikolaus Pevsner. 362 pgs.

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    ...GATEWAY TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY I Robert DELAUNAY The Cardiff team 1912-1913 JEAN CASSOU EMIL LANGUI NIKOLAUS PEVSNER GATEWAY TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY...

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