(Hardback)

By 1947, Matisse in his seventies and suffering poor health much preferred the act of cutting forms from painted paper to drawing or painting. It was his intention to use this assemblage technique to illustrate a collection of poems. This book features Matisse's notes, written with a paintbrush in looping letters.

(Hardback)

Surveys American and European art, 1945-2008. This book discusses the major art movements and features the great painters who changed the landscape of art history, including Pollock, Rauschenberg, Warhol, De Koons, Haring and others. It contains an overview of other artistic disciplines - sculpture, architecture, design, cinema, and photography.