Cézanne's early imagery / Mary Tompkins Lewis
1989, First Edition. Berkeley : University of California Press. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #357864
ISBN: 0520065611
Physical description; xxi, 302 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index. Contents; Introduction : the critical history -- I. Poetic soil : the background of Provence -- II. Faith and death : vernacular traditions in the early works -- III. Resurrection and repentance : La Madeleine et le Christ aux limbes -- IV. Patriarchs and protagonists : biblical images and the context of romanticism -- V. Outcast at the feast : Cézanne's picnics and the art of the Fête-Galante -- VI. The ideal of the real : early essays in genre -- VII. Savagery redeemed : a reinterpretation of L'Enlèvement -- VIII. The landscape of temptation : literature and music in the fantasies of 1870 -- IX. Form as subject : The transitional years. Subjects; Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Criticism and interpretation. Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Criticism and interpretation. Painters France 19th century. Painting, Modern 19th century France. France. Paintings. France. Genres; Bibliography. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Illustrated.
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