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Cézanne

Title
Cézanne / Richard Verdi.
Author
Verdi, Richard
Publication
  • London : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2022.
  • ©2022

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Description
238 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 21 cm.
Summary
An updated edition of this classic survey, a thorough overview of Paul Cézanne's life and work. For Picasso he was "like our father"; for Matisse, "a god of painting." Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is widely regarded as the father of modern art. In this authoritative and accessible study, Richard Verdi traces the evolution of Cézanne's landscape, still-life and figure compositions, from the turbulently romantic creations of his youth to the visionary masterpieces of his final years. The painter's biography--his fluctuating reputation and strained relations with his parents, wife and close friend Emile Zola--is vividly evoked using excerpts from his own letters and from contemporary accounts of the artist. Cézanne was torn between the desires to create art and to seek inspiration--to master the themes of the past, through his copying sessions in the Louvre, and to explore the eternal qualities of nature in the countryside of his native Provence. In this way the artist sought "to make of Impressionism something solid and durable, like the art of the museums." In this richly illustrated overview Verdi explores the strength, vitality and magnitude of Cézanne's achievement. --
Series Statement
World of art
Uniform Title
World of art.
Subject
  • Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906
  • Painters > France > Biography
  • Painters
  • France
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Note
  • First published in 1992.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-230) and index.
Contents
'Difficulties... of the first word' -- The young Romantic (1839-1870) -- The reluctant Impressionist (1871-1877) -- The instinctive Classicist (1878-1885) -- Working in silence (1886-1895) -- Cézanne and the Old Masters -- Entering the promised land (1896-1906) -- Epilogue.
Call Number
JQD 22-356
ISBN
  • 9780500204634
  • 0500204632
LCCN
2021943605
OCLC
1295405553
Author
Verdi, Richard, author.
Title
Cézanne / Richard Verdi.
Publisher
London : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Edition
New edition, Second edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
World of art
World of art.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-230) and index.
Research Call Number
JQD 22-356
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