Ruthless Hedonism The American Reception of Matisse

"O'Brian argues that Matisse's 1931, 1948 and 1951 American museum retrospectives and their journalistic reception taught people to overlook the difficulties of Matisse's art, despite the best efforts of a few critics, especially Clement Greenberg, and Museum of Modern Art curator Alfred Barr....Restoring the lost complexity of Matisse's art, O'Brian shows, must involve much more than just aesthetics."O'Brian, John is the author of 'Ruthless Hedonism The American Reception of Matisse' with ISBN 9780226616261 and ISBN 0226616266.