Cezanne: The Early Years 1859-1872
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Before the world came to know Paul Cézanne as the father of modern art, there was a turbulent, searching young painter in Provence, consumed by raw ambition and a volcanic inner life — and Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872 brings this formative chapter into breathtaking focus. This landmark exhibition catalogue, produced in conjunction with a major retrospective held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, chronicles the artist's earliest creative struggles, from his dark, thickly impastoed canvases influenced by Delacroix and Daumier to the first glimmers of the revolutionary pictorial language he would spend a lifetime refining. The work assembled here presents a young Cézanne grappling with questions of desire, violence, and artistic identity, producing work that is simultaneously raw and visionary. Richly illustrated and accompanied by authoritative scholarly essays, this volume argues that the early period — so often overshadowed by Cézanne's celebrated late works — is essential to understanding the full arc of his genius. The catalogue illuminates how his early apprenticeship in Aix-en-Provence and his combustible friendship with Émile Zola shaped a sensibility that would ultimately shatter the conventions of Western painting. For collectors, scholars, and admirers of Post-Impressionism alike, this is an indispensable record of a master in the making — one that leaves the reader wondering how much of the revolutionary was always hiding in plain sight.
Author: Lawrence Gowing
Format: Paperback
Published: 1988, Royal Academy of Arts
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Before the world came to know Paul Cézanne as the father of modern art, there was a turbulent, searching young painter in Provence, consumed by raw ambition and a volcanic inner life — and Cézanne: The Early Years 1859–1872 brings this formative chapter into breathtaking focus. This landmark exhibition catalogue, produced in conjunction with a major retrospective held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, chronicles the artist's earliest creative struggles, from his dark, thickly impastoed canvases influenced by Delacroix and Daumier to the first glimmers of the revolutionary pictorial language he would spend a lifetime refining. The work assembled here presents a young Cézanne grappling with questions of desire, violence, and artistic identity, producing work that is simultaneously raw and visionary. Richly illustrated and accompanied by authoritative scholarly essays, this volume argues that the early period — so often overshadowed by Cézanne's celebrated late works — is essential to understanding the full arc of his genius. The catalogue illuminates how his early apprenticeship in Aix-en-Provence and his combustible friendship with Émile Zola shaped a sensibility that would ultimately shatter the conventions of Western painting. For collectors, scholars, and admirers of Post-Impressionism alike, this is an indispensable record of a master in the making — one that leaves the reader wondering how much of the revolutionary was always hiding in plain sight.