The World Is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cezanne
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (695 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1907804285 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Allows one to scrutinize the artist's still lifes in illuminating isolation from the work of his peers, and to appreciate how the artist's powerful, painterly sensations could trump even the most traditional subjects he depicted"Mary Tompkins Lewes, The Wall Street Journal"Rigorous and thoughtful"Michael Pepi, The New Criterion"Manages to explore the full gamut of Cézanne’s adventures with still life" Ann Landi, ARTNews"A beautiful tome"Judith Dobrynski, Real Clear Arts blog"Invaluable to serious practitioners, collectors, and viewers of art"Maine Antique Digest
It examines his paintings within the context of his artistic development and professional self-fashioning, and probes the shifting scientific and critical discourses that shaped both his practice and the reception of his pictures.A prolific artist who synthesized formal problems through a close study of objects, Cézanne's lifelong engagement with still life painting yielded what is arguably the single most innovative body of work in the genre of any artist in the Western canon. This ground-breaking volume offers a reappraisal of Paul Cézanne's achievement in the genre of still life. In their often radical coloring and skewed perspective-and abetted by his highly demonstrative paint application-Cézanne's still lifes unmoored objects and their meanings from conventional representation, effectively recasting the physical and perceptual relations between people and things. Apples, skulls or crockery now evoked more than merely abundance, vanity, or notions of the rustic, participating instead in a poetics of suggestiveness and allusion.Ultimately, Cézanne set still life painting on a new course, one that completely altered its traditionally low position in the academic hierarchy of French painting and prefigured the later essays of masters from Pablo
""Objects never cease to live": Cézanne's Immortal Apples" according to Kenneth Hughes. This is the catalogue for the exhibition of the same name at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia from June to September 201"Objects never cease to live": Cézanne's Immortal Apples Kenneth Hughes This is the catalogue for the exhibition of the same name at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia from June to September 2014 and at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in Ontario from November 2014 until February 2015. It ranks toward the top of the three dozen or so books on Cézanne that I have accumulated in the many years of my fascination with this artist, both for the illustrations and for the texts. The exhibition consists of twenty-one paintings, all of which are reproduced . and at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in Ontario from November 201"Objects never cease to live": Cézanne's Immortal Apples Kenneth Hughes This is the catalogue for the exhibition of the same name at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia from June to September 2014 and at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in Ontario from November 2014 until February 2015. It ranks toward the top of the three dozen or so books on Cézanne that I have accumulated in the many years of my fascination with this artist, both for the illustrations and for the texts. The exhibition consists of twenty-one paintings, all of which are reproduced . until February 2015. It ranks toward the top of the three dozen or so books on Cézanne that I have accumulated in the many years of my fascination with this artist, both for the illustrations and for the texts. The exhibition consists of twenty-one paintings, all of which are reproduced . This book is great. Although some of the illustrations will be familiar This book is great. Although some of the illustrations will be familiar to fans, the reproduction quality makes this a good addition to the library.. Words are not pictures. Amazon Customer The numerous reproductions are of very high quality, so the book is well worth the investment for people who like to look at art more than they want to read about it. The organization of the book, however, could not be worse. The book is organized to serve the several articles which present various art historical points of view. For lack of chronological presentation, it is impossible to appreciate Cezanne's development over his career, again assuming you prefer to look rather than