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.

Info autore

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).

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Aruna D. Souza, Aruna D’Souza, Aruna D’Souza, Aruna D'Souza
• Editore: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.04.2008
• EAN: 9780271032146
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03214-6
• Pagine: 176
• Dimensioni: 274 mm x 250 mm x 20 mm
• Peso: 904 g
• Illustrazioni: 42 Halftones, color; 47 Halftones, black and white
• Serie: Refiguring Modernism; Refiguring Modernism
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte