Fauvism One Hundred Years after the Fact

Though recent historiography has paid little it tention to fauvism as a historical movement a number of exhibition catalogues m the subject have been published over the past twenty years They have considerably enriched both the documentation wadable and the body of works studied From a modernist perspective fauvism is considered to be within the sphere of abstraction and seen to participate in a Europe wide phenomenon Another opposite approach consists of distilling fauvism down to the Matisse Derain duo whose work has been examined from the perspective of iconic phenomenology The recent revival in research has also included an interest in techniques such as stamp hid ceramic making and has dealt with the question fauvist drawing But the most innovative work on fauvism both from a historical and an esthetic point of view his resulted from tilt Anglo Saxon cultural studies approach focusing On themes re hied to the study of specific sites (landscape) and to the representation of the body