Michael Doran has gathered texts by contemporaries of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)--including artists, critics, and writers--that illuminate the influential painter's philosophy of art especially in his late years. The book includes historically important essays by a dozen different authors, including Emile Bernard, Joaquim Gasquet, Maurice Denis, and Ambroise Vollard, along with selections from Cezanne's own letters. In addition to the material included in the original French edition of the book, which has also been published in German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese, this edition contains...
Michael Doran has gathered texts by contemporaries of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)--including artists, critics, and writers--that illuminate the influenti...
Cezanne is the supreme landscape painter of modernity, and his famous dictum that -painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations- defines the course of modern painting's extreme departure from fidelity to reality. Despite or because of this dictum, Cezanne's marvelously lucid -sensations- become all the more evident and dazzling when set against images of the locales he painted. Cezanne: Landscape into Art, which reprises and expands the classic 1996 publication by Yale University Press, does precisely this. In this highly praised study, the scholar...
Cezanne is the supreme landscape painter of modernity, and his famous dictum that -painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one...
In Cezanne Reconstructed, the artist and poet Paul takes eight works by Paul Cezanne (L'Estaque, Melting Snow, Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley, Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine, Portrait of Gustave Geffroy, Madame Cezanne with Unbound Hair, The Basket of Apples, The Bathers, and The Card Players) and abstracts them through pixelation to reveal average color distributions over given areas of the image, from the entirety of the painting as one solid color to a "full resolution" image of the...
In Cezanne Reconstructed, the artist and poet Paul takes eight works by Paul Cezanne (L'Estaque, Mel...
