Cezanne's Bathers - Biography and the Erotics of Paint

Discusses an epochal shift in the representation of sexuality in modern art with the images of nudes made by Paul Cezanne. This book proposes a way of reading Cezanne's biography as a form of art criticism. It also proposes a reading of Cezanne's images of bathers that accounts for their strangenesses and for the pleasures they produce.

About the author

Aruna D'Souza is Assistant Professor of Art History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. She is the editor of Self and History: A Tribute to Linda Nochlin (2000) and The Invisible Flâneuse? Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris (2006).

Summary

Discusses an epochal shift in the representation of sexuality in modern art with the images of nudes made by Paul Cezanne. This book proposes a way of reading Cezanne's biography as a form of art criticism. It also proposes a reading of Cezanne's images of bathers that accounts for their strangenesses and for the pleasures they produce.

Product details

• Authors: Aruna D. Souza, Aruna D’Souza, Aruna D’Souza, Aruna D'Souza
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2008
• EAN: 9780271032146
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03214-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 274 mm x 250 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 904 g
• Illustrations: 42 Halftones, color; 47 Halftones, black and white
• Series: Refiguring Modernism; Refiguring Modernism
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history