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u are warmly invited to attend a book launch for AHVA Professor Emeritus Serge Guilbaut's latest publication:
Chatt ing with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview
In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious operation. It was an extensive interview\, seen at the time as a vital assessment of Matisse’s career and set to be published by Albert Skira’s then newly established Swiss press. A fter months of complicated discussions between Courthion and Matisse\, and just weeks before the book was to come out—the artist even had approved the cover design—Matisse suddenly refused its publication. A typescript of the interview now resides in Courthion’s papers at the Getty Research Institut e.
This rich conversation\, conducted during the Nazi occupation of F rance\, is published for the first time in this volume\, where it appears b oth in English translation and in the original French version. Matisse unra vels memories of his youth and his life as a bohemian student in Gustave Mo reau’s atelier. He recounts his experience with collectors\, including Albe rt C. Barnes. He discusses fame\, writers\, musicians\, politicians\, and\, most fascinatingly\, his travels. Chatting with Henri Matisse\, introduced by Serge Guilbaut\, contains a preface by Claude Duthuit\, Matisse’s grand son\, and essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Laurence Bertrand Dorléac. The book includes unpublished correspondence and other original documents related to Courthion’s interview and abounds with details about avant-garde life\, ta ctics\, and artistic creativity in the first half of the twentieth century.
Serge Guilbaut\, a professor of art history at the University of British Columbia\, Vancouver\, writes extensively on modern a nd contemporary art. His books include How New York Stole the Idea of Moder n Art: Abstract Expressionism\, Freedom\, and the Cold War (University of C hicago Press\, 1983)\,Voir\, ne pas voir\, faut voir (Harmonia Mundi\, 1993 )\, and Los espejismos de la imagen en los lindes del siglo XXI (Akal Edici ones\, 2009).
Friday\, January 17th\, 2014
6:00 - 8:00PM
S atellite Gallery\, 2nd Floor\, 560 Seymour Street\, Vancouver
This ev ent is free and everyone is welcome.
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