Les Fauves: A Sourcebook

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This bibliography, research guide and sourcebook on the major French Fauve painters (Henri Matisse and Georges Braque are treated in separate Greenwood bio-bibliographies) includes information on 3,120 books and articles, as well as chronologies, biographical sketches, and exhibition lists. Each artist receives a primary and secondary bibliography with many annotated entries. Secondary bibliographies include details about each artist's life and career, relationships with other artists, work in various media, iconography, and more. Designed for art historians, art students, museum and gallery curators, and art lovers, this volume organises the litertaure surrounding this revolutionary, 20th-century art group. In 1905, the paintings of Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck and their friends shocked conservative museum-goers; hence, the eventual popularity of art critic Louis Vauxcelles's tag "les fauves, or "wild beasts" by which these artists become known. Although it lasted only three or four years, Fauvism is recognised as the first artistic revolution of international consequence in the 20th century. It was based on the glorification of pure saturated colours and the free expression of primitivism. By the end of 1908, Fauvism collapsed in the face of Cubism, which, moreover, several Fauve artists helped to form.

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.,."This annotated bibliography's organization will prove particularly useful to art historians. A section on each Fauve artist presents a biographical sketch, a chronology, and a primary and secondary bibliography on the artist....This user-friendly sourcebook will be an invaluable asset to scholars researching the Fauve movement. No college or university reference department should be without it."-Choice
...This annotated bibliography's organization will prove particularly useful to art historians. A section on each Fauve artist presents a biographical sketch, a chronology, and a primary and secondary bibliography on the artist....This user-friendly sourcebook will be an invaluable asset to scholars researching the Fauve movement. No college or university reference department should be without it.-Choice
After reviewing this book I cannot imagine a fine arts library, maybe even a general reference library, functioning without a copy of Les Fauves: A Sourcebook on its reference shelf. The broadest bibliographic overview to date. Les Fauves: A Sourcebook is a research book, not a primary resource. It will appeal most to graduate-level researchers and scholars and function at its best within a research library that can take advantage of its depth and breadth. However, that same depth and breadth, in a single volume, are what make it most useful to public, high school, and community college libraries and their patrons.-RQ
This impressive volume covers the literature on Fauvism in general as well as on its major artists. A scholarly sourcebook on the Fauves that any library supporting research on the subject will want to purchase.-Reference Book Review
..."This annotated bibliography's organization will prove particularly useful to art historians. A section on each Fauve artist presents a biographical sketch, a chronology, and a primary and secondary bibliography on the artist....This user-friendly sourcebook will be an invaluable asset to scholars researching the Fauve movement. No college or university reference department should be without it."-Choice
"This impressive volume covers the literature on Fauvism in general as well as on its major artists. A scholarly sourcebook on the Fauves that any library supporting research on the subject will want to purchase."-Reference Book Review
"After reviewing this book I cannot imagine a fine arts library, maybe even a general reference library, functioning without a copy of Les Fauves: A Sourcebook on its reference shelf. The broadest bibliographic overview to date. Les Fauves: A Sourcebook is a research book, not a primary resource. It will appeal most to graduate-level researchers and scholars and function at its best within a research library that can take advantage of its depth and breadth. However, that same depth and breadth, in a single volume, are what make it most useful to public, high school, and community college libraries and their patrons."-RQ

Author Bio

RUSSELL T. CLEMENT is Fine Arts Librarian, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. His Greenwood books include Georges Braque: A Bio-Bibliography (1994), Henri Matisse: A Bio-Bibliography (1993), and Paul Gauguin: A Bio-Bibliography (1991). His articles have appeared in The Journal of American Folklore, The Hawaiian Journal of History, Library Journal, and others. He is currently completing a research guide on the French Symbolist painters.