Matisse’s 'La Danse': On the Semantics of the Surface in Modern Painting

Since in Modernism inner meaning is doubted or believed lost, the question arises of what an interpretation ignoring the established dialectics of outside and inside and limiting itself to an 'exclusive surface' would look like. Henri Matisse’s decorations’ raise questions about the differ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holger Otten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Helsinki University Press 2008-11-01
Series:Estetika
Online Access:https://estetikajournal.org/articles/43