Making and seeing: Matisse and the Kuba decorative “system”

Pattern has been consistently discussed and illustrated in art historical and ethnographic sources in linear terms. It is assumed that this is also how they are seen by their makers so that, if names are attached to them, it is as isolated figures abstracted from a total composition. In this essay...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: John Mack
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2012-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/mack.pdf