Conversations with Cezanne (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520225190)

Michael Doran has gathered texts by contemporaries of Paul C騷anne (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 C騷anne'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 C騷anne 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.

C騷anne'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.

Author: Michael Doran
ISBN-10: 0520225198
ISBN-13: 9780520225190
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 07/10/2001
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/12/2001 pg. 192