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Cézanne : a life / Alex Danchev.

Title
Cézanne : a life / Alex Danchev.
Author
Danchev, Alex.
Publication
New York : Pantheon Books, [2012]

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xx, 488 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
An assessment of the life and work of Paul Cézanne offers insight into his views about an artist's role and his self-doubt about his own capabilities, demonstrating how his beliefs revolutionized the ways subsequent artists would see and depict the world.
Subject
  • Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906
  • ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
  • Painters > France > Biography
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers
  • ART / European
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-466) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Prologue: the right eyes -- The dauber and the scribbler -- Le papa -- Self-portrait: the brooder -- All excesses are brothers -- I dare -- Self-portrait: the desperado -- Anarchist painting -- La Boule -- Self-portrait: the dogged -- The lizard -- Semper Virens -- Self-portrait: the plasterer -- L'Œuvre -- Homo sum -- Self-portrait: the inscrutable -- A scarecrow -- Non finito -- Epilogue: Cézanne by numbers.
ISBN
  • 9780307377074 (hardback)
  • 0307377075 (hardback)
LCCN
^^2012007182
OCLC
  • 773021697
  • SCSB-9885377
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library