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The Steins collect : Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian avant-garde / edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow.
- Title
- The Steins collect : Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian avant-garde / edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow.
- Publication
- [San Francisco, Calif.] : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : In association with Yale University Press, c2011.
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- Description
- 492 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 30 cm.
- Summary
- "As American expatriates living in Paris, the writer Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael's wife Sarah were absolutely pivotal in shaping the city's vibrant cultural life in the early 20th century. They hosted Saturday evening salons at which the brightest artists, writers, musicians, and collectors convened to discuss the latest developments. They aggressively promoted and collected emerging painters and sculptors, particularly their close friends Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. And along the way they developed unparalleled holdings in modernist work by such figures as Paul Cézanne, Juan Gris, Francis Picabia, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Lavishly produced and featuring more than 600 images, The Steins Collect is the first comprehensive exploration of the Steins' extraordinary collections and their enduring cultural influence. The book explores the Steins' impact on art-making and collecting practices in Europe and the United States; the intense sibling rivalries that developed around key artists and ideas; the roots of Leo's aesthetic theories in the thought of William James and Bernard Berenson; Sarah and Michael's role in founding the Académie Matisse; Gertrude's complex relationship with Picasso and their artistic influence on each other; Le Corbusier's radical villa design for the family; and much more. The Steins Collect not only reveals the artistic prescience of this innovative family and their important patronage, but also traces how they created a new international standard of taste for modern art."--Publisher description.
- Alternative Title
- Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian avant-garde
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs
- Note
- Published to accompany an exhibition held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 21-Sept. 6, 2011, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais, Paris, Oct. 3, 2011-Jan. 20, 2012, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 21-June 3, 2012.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Discovering modern art: the Steins' early years in Paris, 1903-1907 / Rebecca Rabinow -- Saturday evenings at the Steins' / Emily Braun -- Leo Stein before 1914 / Gary Tinterow, assisted by Marci Kwon -- Leo without Gertrude / Martha Lucy -- Sarah and Michael Stein, Matisse, and America / Janet Bishop -- Matisse as religion: the "Mike Steins" and Matisse, 1908-1918 / Claudine Grammont -- The Steins build: La Corbusier's villa Stein-de-Monzie, les terrasses / Carrie Pilto -- Gertrude Stein and painting: from Picasso to Picabia / Cécile Debray -- Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: in their own words / Hélène Klein -- Gertrude Stein as portrait painter / Isabelle Alfandary -- Alice Toklas and the Gertrude Stein Collection, 1946-1967 / Edward Burns.
- ISBN
- 9780300169416 (hardcover)
- 0300169418 (hardcover)
- 9780918471871 (pbk.)
- 0918471877 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2011011783
- OCLC
- 670481314
- SCSB-11035909
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library