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Cezanne, Murder, and Modern Life

Andre Dombrowski author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:11th Jan '13

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"Cezanne, 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 Cezanne, 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 Cezanne, 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.

"Throughout the arguments are supported with a stunning array of contextual information, including both the expected and unexpected... Recommended." -- E. K. Mix, Butler University Choice "Life is beautifully produced. The use of illustrations is materly." -- Alex Danchev Times Higher Education Supplement "That Andre Dombrowski has contributed a highly original and persuasive interpretation of Cezanne's early work is indubitable." H-France Review "Probing ... very rewarding ... [enables] a more complete view of the origins of modernist painting." -- Allison Morehead Journal of Modern History

ISBN: 9780520273399

Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 28mm

Weight: 953g

320 pages