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Long perceived as a side pursuit to his celebrated painting career, Henri Matisse’s sculpture gets an overdue critical examination in this book. Far from a simple narrative of the artist discovering Africa, the highly original readings of Matisse’s Sculpture plot new co-ordinates of study for early twentieth-century primitivism. It examines the larger constructs of thought at the time, with a penetrating analysis of anthropology, popular erotica, and the visual culture of French. In addition, the book repositions Matisse’s sculptural practice, particularly in regard to its investigations of race and sexuality, as a cornerstone of his prolific career.
