25 janvier 2022
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Glen Macleod, « “A Touch of Paris”: Stevens, Walter Pach, and Matisse », Éditions Rue d’Ulm, ID : 10.4000/books.editionsulm.6817
Critics have made much of Wallace Stevens’ relation to Picasso but little of his relation to Picasso’s chief rival, Matisse. Yet Stevens was deeply interested in modern French painting and Matisse was the leading French painter (not counting Picasso, who was Spanish) throughout his mature poetic career. This chapter will explore Stevens’ relations to Matisse, especially through their mutual friendship with Walter Pach. I will argue that Matisse was far more important to Stevens than has gener...