List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Matisse and the Book
Performing Literary Criticism
Theorizing Arts of the Book: Maupassant's Influence
1. Matisse Among the Poets
Modernist Genealogies
Controversial Beginnings: The Two Versions of Les Jockeys camouflés
Essential Lines
Thresholds
2. 'Visual Thoughts': Les Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé
Arts of Elimination
Mirrored Space
Poetic Others
3. Disowning Ulysses
Homeric Frameworks
Books within Books
Innovation, Instability, and Tradition
The Limited Editions Club in a Post-War Art World
4. The War Book: Pasiphaé, Chant de Minos (Les Crétois)
Performing the 'Solar Myth'
Heroism, Shame, and the Corrida
From Myth to Politics
5. Imitation and Innovation: Florilège des Amours de Ronsard
Appeasing the Bibliophiles
Influence: A Modernist Renaissance
Objectification and Identification: Portraying the Female Nude
6. Enacting Beauty: Les Fleurs du mal
A New Architecture for Les Fleurs du mal
Modernism and Beauty
Matisse Alone: 'Les Fleurs du bien'
7. Problematizing Authorship: Les Lettres portugaises
Rectificatory Justice and the Book
Selfhood: Matisse's Essays on Art
8. Beyond the 'Ritual Space' of the Book: Jazz
Drawing Words/Hearing Colour
The Failure of Icarus
9. Old Acquaintances, New Collaborations: Tzara and Reverdy
Spontaneity
Redefining Ekphrasis: Visages
10. Imprisonment and Occupation: Poèmes de Charles d'Orléans
A Modernist Illuminated Manuscript
Illustration and Imitation
Appropriating Artistic Gesture
11. Apollinaire Redux
Friendship as an Interpretive Framework
The Book as Portrait
Women and Books: From Apollinaire to Repli
12. Literary Legacies
Books out of Time
Traces

Bibliography
Index

Matisse’s Poets

Critical Performance in the Artist’s Book