Cezanne, Murder, and Modern Life

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-520-27339-9
Verlag: University Of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 320 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 261 mm, Gewicht: 954 g

Reihe: The Phillips Collection Book Prize Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dombrowski, Andre

Dombrowski, André

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

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

Über Autor(innen)

Andre Dombrowski is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. This book is winner of the 2009 Phillips Book Prize