Cézanne : a life / Alex Danchev.
- Title
- Cézanne : a life / Alex Danchev.
- Published by
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2012]
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 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
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- 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.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-466) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain