The Big Show
Nicholas Penny, 25 March 1993
Henri Matisse: A Retrospective
by John Elderfield.
Thames and Hudson, 479 pp., £48, September 1992,0 500 09231 1 Show More
by John Elderfield.
Thames and Hudson, 479 pp., £48, September 1992,
Henri Matisse 1904-1917
by Yves-Alain Bois.
Centre Pompidou, 524 pp., frs 220, February 1993,2 85850 722 8 Show More
by Yves-Alain Bois.
Centre Pompidou, 524 pp., frs 220, February 1993,
“... The visual arts today have two publics. One consists of people who visit, and revisit, churches, cathedrals, museums and galleries – as well as temporary loan exhibitions. The second consists of those whose experience of art is almost entirely of these exhibitions. Temporary loan exhibitions are not a new thing: they were mounted by the British Institution in London before the National Gallery was founded ... ”