Cezanne and the Eternal Feminine

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-521-83726-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 701 g

Reihe: Contemporary Artists and their Critics

Cézanne's painting The Eternal Feminine, painted in 1878, has been given considerable attention in the literature on this artist, though it has generally embarrassed scholars because it suggests aspects of the artist's personality that many connoisseurs in the past would rather have repressed. The painting has been known by a variety of titles and, as Wayne Andersen has discovered, has also been altered. He traced these alterations to an art dealer who made them in an effort to render the painting more marketable. This volume is the first to interrogate the original state of The Eternal Feminine and to resolve its mysterious importance to Cézanne and, more broadly, the history of art. Devoting a separate chapter to each of the titles by which the picture has been known, Andersen resolves its hidden meaning while providing a fresh look at Cézanne's artistic process.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andersen, Wayne V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert Impressionismus, Post-Impressionismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The eternal feminine; 2. The miracle of her restored vision; 3. Les Spectacles des Fêtes Foraines; 4. Ambroise Vollard's show window; 5. Leda and the Swan; 6. The clothed and the naked; 7. The Death of Sardanapalus; 8. The whore of Babylon; 9. Venus, venal, venality; 10. The sacrifice of the eose; 11. Hero and Leander; 12. The apotheosis of Delacroix; 13. The vicissitudes of love; 14. Wives in crisis; 15. Why not put the eyes at the crotch; 16. From whose point of view; 17. The sand-man.

Über Autor(innen)

Andersen, Wayne V.
Wayne Andersen is Professor Emeritus of History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of a number of volumes on aspects of nineteenth and twentieth century art, most recently Picasso's Brothel: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and The Youth of Cézanne and Zola.