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Cezanne, November 2012
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A life
Pantheon
November 2012
On Sale: October 23, 2012
512 pages
ISBN: 0307377075
EAN: 9780307377074
Kindle: B007SGLZSK
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Non-Fiction Biography
Alex Danchev gives us the first comprehensive assessment of
the revolutionary work and restless life of Paul Cézanne to
be published in decades. One of the most influential
painters of his time and beyond, Cézanne was the exemplary
artist-creator of the modern age who changed the way we see
the world.
With brisk intellect, rich
documentation, and eighty-eight color and fifty-two
black-and-white illustrations, Danchev tells the story of an
artist who was originally considered a madman, a barbarian,
and a sociopath. Beginning with the unsettled teenager in
Aix, Danchev takes us through the trials of a painter who
believed that art must be an expression of temperament but
was tormented by self-doubt, who was rejected by the Salon
for forty years, who sold nothing outside his immediate
circle until his thirties, who had a family that he kept
secret from his father until his forties, who had his first
exhibition at the age of fifty-six—but who fiercely
maintained his revolutionary beliefs. Danchev shows us how
the beliefs Cézanne held and the life he led became the
obsession and inspiration of artists, writers, poets, and
philosophers from Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso to Samuel
Beckett and Allen Ginsberg. A special feature of the book is
a remarkable series of Cézanne’s self-portraits, reproduced
in full color.
Cézanne is not
only the fascinating life of a visionary artist and
extraordinary human being but also a searching assessment of
his ongoing influence in the artistic imagination of our
time. A stunning portrait of a monumentally important
artist, this is a biography not to be missed.
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