Andrews, Jorella G.. 2015. This is Cézanne. London: Laurence King Publishing. ISBN 978-1780674780 [Book]

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Paul Cézanne challenged convention and pioneered new possibilities in painting. He was remarkable for his ability to perceive and paint aspects of everyday life in ways that revealed dynamic yet deeply harmonious visions of the world.

But the intellectual and emotional difficulties of his achievements were considerable. Mainly self-taught, most of his career was plagued by rejection. The critics, and the public, disliked his paintings, and in 1884 Cézanne declared that Paris, the centre of the nineteenth-century art world, had defeated him. Repeatedly, he retreated into self-doubt and bad temper.

This book follows Cézanne on his extraordinary artistic journey, focusing on his formative discoveries, made not in the flashy, fashionable metropolis of Paris but in provincial and rural France, often in isolation.

Illustrations by Patrick Vale.

Item Type:	Book
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Visual Cultures
Date:	5 May 2015
Item ID:	13637
Date Deposited:	29 Sep 2015 16:30
Last Modified:	07 Jul 2017 13:04
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/13637

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