| Authors: |
Danchev, Alex.
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| Material type: |
Biography |
| Subject: |
Painters -- France -- Biography.
Cézanne, Paul,1839-1906.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Pantheon, c2012. |
| Description: |
xx, 488 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780307377074 0307377075 |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-466) and index. |
| 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. |
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| 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. |