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"This beautifully illustrated volume traces the development of Cézanne's style through his works on paper. Diverse in subject matter and execution, his drawings and watercolors include copies of other masters' works, studies of his immediate family and their domestic surroundings, and preliminary ideas for finished compositions. They reveal Cézanne as someone deeply committed to devising a process for comprehending and recording the world as he...
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This volume offers a complete, thematic reappraisal of Paul Cezanne's still life paintings, looking at them both within the broader context of his complex artistic and psychological development and within the wider history of the development of still life in France and early 20th-century modernism.
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"Cezanne has long been celebrated as the founding father of modern art. But astonishingly there has never been a study devoted to his self-portraits. Now, for the first time, Steven Platzman reveals the remarkable light these haunting works throw on the artist and his era." "Platzman begins with the young Cezanne struggling to make his mark in the Parisian art world of the 1860s. His earliest self-portraits express all the hostility he projected at...
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John Rewald, the internationally acclaimed Cezanne scholar, presents here for the first time a full account of how the artist's reputation and influence became established in America between 1891 and 1921, and of how some of the world's largest collections of Cezanne's works were formed in the United States.
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Only now can we see Paul Cezanne as the invisible genius at the very inception of modern art. Philip Callow's life of the great painter, the first in more than a quarter-century, offers a vital reassessment. Drawing on contemporary sources and on Joachim Gasquet's newly translated firsthand account, Mr. Callow employs his exceptional skills and a poetic prose to follow the twists and turns of an outwardly uneventful life that was filled with inner...
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Cézanne is best known for his paintings of still-lifes and landscapes. Yet his graphic oeuvre, which comprises over 1200 drawings and is one of the most extensive and certainly the most important of the nineteenth century, has rarely been explored as thoroughly as in this volume. Andersen's acute analysis of this serious and impressive output of Cézanne has resulted in an art book of unusual distinction: all of the portraits are here, the majority...
17) Cézanne
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Cézanne and contemporary criticism -- Cézanne criticism after 1920 -- Cézanne as a romantic -- Impressionism -- Plastic construction -- The art theories of Cézanne -- Passion and grandeur -- A cosmic harmony -- Biographical outline and contemporary events.
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In this unique blending of clinical experience with in-depth biographical study, Gedo examines both the necessary traits that prepare a person for a creative career as well as the emotional vicissitudes of such a career-the psychological issues talented persons must struggle with in order to be creative. He then goes further to discuss crucial developmental experiences that may result in a creative personality-childhood experiences, the strong, possibly...
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"This book offers the reader brief but adequate biographies of Gauguin, Van Gogh and Cézanne ... and for those readers who wish to go a step further and understand how it was that these three men together began one of the most important art movements in history, the effect of which is to be found today in every walk of life, we offer the story of the dramatic influence which each exercised on the other"--
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