Few artists have exerted as much influence on modern art as Paul Cezanne. Picasso, Braque, and Matisse all acknowledged a profound debt to his painting, and many historians regard him as the father of modernism. This new biography reexamines Cezanne s life and art, discussing the key events and people who shaped his work and placing his oeuvre in the context of nineteenth and early twentieth-century art and culture. Jon Kear begins with Cezanne s formative years in Provence, highlighting the deep and abiding impressions the landscapes of the region would have on his paintings. He follows...
Few artists have exerted as much influence on modern art as Paul Cezanne. Picasso, Braque, and Matisse all acknowledged a profound debt to his paintin...
Poet, actor, playwright, surrealist, drug addict, asylum inmate Antonin Artaud (1896 1949) is one of the twentieth century s most enigmatic personalities and idiosyncratic thinkers. In this biography, David A. Shafer takes readers on a voyage through Artaud s life, which he spent amid the company of France s most influential cultural figures, even as he stood apart from them. Shafer casts Artaud as a person with tenacious values. Even though Artaud was born in the material comfort of a bourgeois family from Marseille, he uncompromisingly rejected bourgeois values and norms. Becoming...
Poet, actor, playwright, surrealist, drug addict, asylum inmate Antonin Artaud (1896 1949) is one of the twentieth century s most enigmatic personalit...
Joseph Beuys is one of the most important and controversial German artists of the late twentieth century, an artist whose persona and art is so tightly interwoven with Germany's fascist past--Beuys was, after all, a former soldier in the Third Reich--that he has been a problematic figure for postwar and post-reunification Germany. In illuminating the centrality of trauma and the sustained investigation of the notion of art as the two defining threads in Beuys's life and art, this book offers a critical biography that deepens our understanding of his many works and their contribution. ...
Joseph Beuys is one of the most important and controversial German artists of the late twentieth century, an artist whose persona and art is so tightl...
