Cï¿½zanne, Murder, and Modern Life

Name: Cï¿½zanne, Murder, and Modern Life
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ISBN: 9780520273399

ISBN-10: 0520273397

ISBN-13: 9780520273399

Edition: 2012

Authors: Andrï¿½ Dombrowski, Andrï¿½ Dombrowski

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Cézanne, Murder and Modern Lifeoffers an original approach to early French modernism, one informed by the art's unprecedented psychological intensity. Focusing on the early work of Paul Cézanne, it offers a competing version for modern painting rooted in the evocation of emotive "expression," emblematized by scenes of murder, sexual violence, and anxious domesticity. Mobilizing contexts rarely brought to bear on our understanding of art in the age of Impressionism, let alone the work of Cézanne, this book investigates the "culte du moi" and the conceptions of authorial function in art and literature, theories of neo-romanticism and early symbolism of the 1860s, as well as…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.090



Introduction



Violent Beginnings: The Murder



"I Is Another": Self-Portraiture and the Modernization of Olympia



Poetry, Portraiture, and Interiority: Paul Alexis Reading to ï¿½mile Zola



Art Arranged for Piano: The Overture to "Tannhï¿½user"



The Emperorï¿½s Last Clothes: Cï¿½zanne, Fashion, and l'annï¿½e terrible


Epilogue: The End of Violence


Notes


Further Reading


List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Index