Pantheon Books | ISBN:0307377075 | File Type: PDF, 512 pages | File size: 61.Mb | Oct. 16th, 2012
Artists Architects Photographers Biographies Autobiographies: A Life A major biography the first comprehensive new assessment to be published in decades of the brilliant work and restless life of a Cezanne the most influential painter of his time and beyond whose vision revolutionized the role of the painter and changed the way artists wod see and depict the world forever after Alex Danchev with brisk intellect rich documentation and eighty color illustrations tells the story of an artist who during his lifetime was considered a madman a barbarian and a revolutionary Beginning with the restless teenager from Aix Danchev carries us through the trials of a painter who believed that art must be an expression of temperament but who was tormented by self doubt whose work sold to no one outside his immediate circle until late into his thirties who fiercely maintained the revolutionary belief that to paint from nature is not to copy an object it is to represent its sensations And Danchev shows us how the implications of this belief became the obsession of many other artists and writers from Matisse to Samuel Beckett The book delivers not only the fascinating life of this visionary artist and remarkable man but a complete assessment of his ongoing influence in the artistic imagination of our own time
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