Special issue of Art in American with Andy Warhol self-portrait covers and four primary articles on Warhol. Mary Josephson: "Warhol: The Medium as Cultural Artifact"; Carolyn Betsch: "A Catalogue Raisonné of Warhol's Gestures"; David Bourdon: "Warhol as Filmmaker"; Joseph Masheck: "Warhol as Illustrator. ... [details]
"Fifty years after his death, Matisse the Master (the second half of the biography that began with the acclaimed The Unknown Matisse) shows us the painter as he saw himself. With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his voluminous family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Hilary Spurling documents a lifetime of desperation and self-doubt exacerbated by Matisse's attempts to counteract the violence and disruption of the twentieth century in paintings that now seem effortlessly serene, radiant, and stable. ... [details]
"Henri Matisse is one of the masters of twentieth-century art and a household word to millions of people who find joy and meaning in his light-filled, coloful iamges - yet, despite all the books devoted to his work, the man himself has remained a mystery. ... [details]
