Matisse’s Poets : Critical Performance in the Artist’s Book (Hardcover)

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Matisse and the Book Performing Literary Criticism Theorizing Arts of the Book: Maupassant's Influence 1. Matisse Among the Poets Modernist Genealogies Controversial Beginnings: The Two Versions of Les Jockeys camoufles Essential Lines Thresholds 2. 'Visual Thoughts': Les Poesies de Stephane Mallarme Arts of Elimination Mirrored Space Poetic Others 3. Disowning Ulysses Homeric Frameworks Books within Books Innovation, Instability, and Tradition The Limited Editions Club in a Post-War Art World 4. The War Book: Pasiphae, Chant de Minos (Les Cretois) Performing the 'Solar Myth' Heroism, Shame, and the Corrida From Myth to Politics 5. Imitation and Innovation: Florilege des Amours de Ronsard Appeasing the Bibliophiles Influence: A Modernist Renaissance Objectification and Identification: Portraying the Female Nude 6. Enacting Beauty: Les Fleurs du mal A New Architecture for Les Fleurs du mal Modernism and Beauty Matisse Alone: 'Les Fleurs du bien' 7. Problematizing Authorship: Les Lettres portugaises Rectificatory Justice and the Book Selfhood: Matisse's Essays on Art 8. Beyond the 'Ritual Space' of the Book: Jazz Drawing Words/Hearing Colour The Failure of Icarus 9. Old Acquaintances, New Collaborations: Tzara and Reverdy Spontaneity Redefining Ekphrasis: Visages 10. Imprisonment and Occupation: Poemes de Charles d'Orleans A Modernist Illuminated Manuscript Illustration and Imitation Appropriating Artistic Gesture 11. Apollinaire Redux Friendship as an Interpretive Framework The Book as Portrait Women and Books: From Apollinaire to Repli 12. Literary Legacies Books out of Time Traces Bibliography Index