Volume 32, Number 6 · April 11, 1985
All that Jazz
By Pierre Schneider
Fernand Léger
by Peter de Francia
Yale University Press, 280 pp., $35.00
Jazz
by Henri Matisse, translated by Sophie Hawkes
Braziller, 152 pp., $110.00
Two artists more dissimilar in character, background, attitudes, and achievement than Fernand léger and Henri Matisse would be difficult to find. Yet during the same years, from the late Twenties onward, Matisse and léger were almost alone in choosing to confront in their work what might be called the problem of the age: how to salvage quality in a world henceforth ruled by quantity. Economists and political and social thinkers had of course been concerned with this for some time, but artists were quite unaware of it, with the exception of Matisse and léger.
Review, 5341 words
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