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Zusatztext "Probing . . . very rewarding . . . [enables] a more complete view of the origins of modernist painting." Informationen zum Autor Andre Dombrowski is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. This book is winner of the 2009 Phillips Book Prize Klappentext " Cézanne! Murder and Modern Life changes the way we think about-and see-Cézanne's entire oeuvre. Dombrowski's arguments are convincing and bold! especially on the theme of murder as a vehicle for representation. Modern Olympia has never before been so satisfactorily analyzed." Susan Sidlauskus! Rutgers University! author of Cezanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense "Exciting and intelligent! Cézanne! Murder! and Modern Life will be important for modernists! and essential for scholars of Cézanne! early Impressionism! and painting in the 1860s. Dombrowski shows us a Cézanne we did not know." Nancy Locke! author of Manet and the Family Romance "Throughout the arguments are supported with a stunning array of contextual information, including both the expected and unexpected... Recommended."--Choice Zusammenfassung Cézanne, Murder and Modern Life offers 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 psycho-physiological analyses of the human mind and other positivist theories of modern sociality and instinctuality popularized during the Second Empire and early Third Republic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Violent Beginnings: The Murder 2. "I Is Another": Self-Portraiture and the Modernization of Olympia 3. Poetry! Portraiture! and Interiority: Paul Alexis Reading to Émile Zola 4. Art Arranged for Piano: The Overture to "Tannhäuser" 5. The Emperor's Last Clothes: Cézanne! Fashion! and L'Année terrible Epilogue: The End of Violence Notes Further Reading List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Index ...
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Offers an original approach to early French modernism, one informed by the art's unprecedented psychological intensity. Focusing on the early work of Paul Cezanne, this title offers a competing version for modern painting rooted in the evocation of emotive "expression," emblematized by scenes of murder, sexual violence, and anxious domesticity.
