书名：Matisse. Cut-outs. 45th Ed. / 亨利·马蒂斯. 剪纸（45周年纪念版）  

作者：Néret, Xavier-Gilles

出版：TASCHEN，2022

装帧：精装，412页

语种：英文

尺寸：15.6 x 21.7 cm

马蒂斯具有革命性的晚期作品。

在马蒂斯作为画家、雕塑家和石版画家的不朽职业生涯接近尾声时，年迈且体弱的他已无法长时间站立并使用画笔。在他人生的这一晚期阶段——当时他已年近80岁——他开创了“在色彩中雕刻”的技法，创作了色彩明亮、风格大胆的纸贴画。尽管一些当代评论家将这些作品斥为一位衰老老人的荒唐之举，但实际上，这些水粉剪贴画代表了现代艺术的一场革命，它们作为一种全新的媒介，重新构想了色彩与线条之间由来已久的矛盾。

我们这本原版获奖超大尺寸书籍第一卷的这个版本，为马蒂斯的纸贴画提供了详尽的历史背景，追溯其根源至他1930年的塔希提之旅，并一直延续到他在尼斯度过的晚年。书中收录了许多马蒂斯的照片，以及亨利·卡蒂埃-布列松和电影制作人F. W. 茂瑙的一些罕见影像，还包含了马蒂斯本人、出版商E. 泰里亚德、诗人路易·阿拉贡、亨利·米肖、皮埃尔·勒韦迪以及马蒂斯的女婿乔治·杜图伊的文字作品。

这些纸贴画以其看似简单的形式，既具备了雕塑般的质感，又实现了早期极简主义的抽象风格，这对后世数代艺术家产生了深远影响。这些作品充满活力、色彩斑斓，且往往规模宏大，它们是20世纪艺术的真正支柱，即便在今天看来，仍如马蒂斯在世时一样大胆且富有创新性。

Matisse’s revolutionary late-period work

Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life—he was almost 80 years of age—he developed the technique of “carving into color,” creating bright, bold paper cut-outs. Though dismissed by some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these gouaches decoupées (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a revolution in modern art, a whole new medium that reimagined the age-old conflict between color and line.

This edition of the first volume of our original award-winning XXL book provides a thorough historical context to Matisse’s cut-outs, tracing their roots to his 1930 trip to Tahiti and continuing through to his final years in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, as well as some rare images by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the filmmaker F. W. Murnau, with texts by Matisse, publisher E. Tériade, the poets Louis Aragon, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse’s son-in-law Georges Duthuit.

In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs achieved both a sculptural quality and an early minimalist abstraction, which would profoundly influence generations of artists to come. Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale, these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse’s lifetime.