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Edited by Michael Doran
Conversations with Cézanne
An Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book
$50.00, £29.95 hardcover
978-0-520-22517-6
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$19.95, £11.95 paperback
978-0-520-22519-0
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312 pages, 5-7/8 x 8-1/4 inches, 22 black-and-white illustrations
July 2001, Available worldwide
Categories: Art; Art History; Art Theory; Autobiographies & Biographies
July 2001, Available worldwide
Categories: Art; Art History; Art Theory; Autobiographies & Biographies
"The long-awaited English version . . . This book is indispensable reading for anyone passionate about painting."—Publishers Weekly
"The most immediate appeal of the book is the light that it throws on Cezanne's notorious character."—Times Literary Supplement
"While Cezanne was once prized as an artistic stepping-stone, this collection reinforces his position as a landmark in his own right-a Reims Cathedral of art history."—Art and Auction
"The most immediate appeal of the book is the light that it throws on Cezanne's notorious character."—Times Literary Supplement
"While Cezanne was once prized as an artistic stepping-stone, this collection reinforces his position as a landmark in his own right-a Reims Cathedral of art history."—Art and Auction
"This is an extraordinary book. It not only contains all the accounts written by those who met Cézanne and spoke with him (including several 'interviews' with the painter), but it also puts these accounts in perspective."—Yves-Alain Bois, Harvard University
"Doran's collection of diverse primary sources recording Cézanne's theories and the early critical reception of his art is an essential monument in the painter's bibliography, previously not accessible. And Gowing's thoughtful essay serves as a superb model for how such primary material should be consulted."—Mary Tompkins Lewis, author of Cézanne
"Doran's collection of diverse primary sources recording Cézanne's theories and the early critical reception of his art is an essential monument in the painter's bibliography, previously not accessible. And Gowing's thoughtful essay serves as a superb model for how such primary material should be consulted."—Mary Tompkins Lewis, author of Cézanne
Michael Doran has gathered texts by contemporaries of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)—including artists, critics, and writers—that illuminate the influential painter's philosophy of art especially in his late years. The book includes historically important essays by a dozen different authors, including Emile Bernard, Joaquim Gasquet, Maurice Denis, and Ambroise Vollard, along with selections from Cézanne's own letters.
In addition to the material included in the original French edition of the book, which has also been published in German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese, this edition contains an introduction written especially for it by noted Cézanne scholar Richard Shiff. The book closes with Lawrence Gowing's magisterial essay, "The Logic of Organized Sensations," first published in 1977 and long out of print.
Cézanne's work, and the thinking that lay behind it, have been of inestimable importance to the artists who followed him. This gathering of writings will be of enormous interest to artists, writers, art historians—indeed to all students of modern art.
In addition to the material included in the original French edition of the book, which has also been published in German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese, this edition contains an introduction written especially for it by noted Cézanne scholar Richard Shiff. The book closes with Lawrence Gowing's magisterial essay, "The Logic of Organized Sensations," first published in 1977 and long out of print.
Cézanne's work, and the thinking that lay behind it, have been of inestimable importance to the artists who followed him. This gathering of writings will be of enormous interest to artists, writers, art historians—indeed to all students of modern art.
Preface
Introduction by Richard Shiff
Documents
Gustave Geffroy: Excerpt from Claude Monet, His Life, His Times, His Works
Ambroise Vollard: Excerpt from Paul Cézanne
Léo Larguier: Excerpt from Sunday with Paul Cézanne
Jules Borély: 'Cézanne at Aix' (L'Art Vivant)
Emile Bernard: Letter to His Mother (5 February 1904)
Paul Cézanne: Letters to Emile Bernard (April to June, 1904)
Emile Bernard: 'Paul Cézanne' (L'Occident)
Paul Cézanne: Letters to Emile Bernard (July 1904 to September 1906)
Emile Bernard: 'Memories of Paul Cézanne' (Mercure de France)
Francis Jourdain: Excerpt from Cézanne
R. P. Rivière and J. F. Schnerb: 'The Studio of Cézanne' (La Grande Revue)
Maurice Denis: Excerpt from the Journal
Karl Ernst Osthaus: 'A Visit to Paul Cézanne' (Das Feuer)
Paul Cézanne: My Confessions
Interpretations
Joachim Gasquet: 'What He Said to Me' (excerpt from Cézanne)
Emile Bernard: 'A Conversation with Cézanne' (Mercure de France)
Maurice Denis: 'Cézanne' (excerpt from Theories)
Lawrence Gowing: 'The Logic of Organized Sensations'
Notes
Bibliography
Index