Cezannes Composition (Paper): Analysis of His Form with Diagrams and Photographs of His Motifs, Third edition - Softcover

Loran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520054598 ISBN 13: 9780520054592

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

This book had its provenance in the late 1920s, when Erle Loran, then a young artist who wanted to fathom the mysteries of Czanne's structural form, took up residence in the master's studio in Aix-en-Provence. For several years he lived there and painted, and when he came across familiar motifs in the countryside, he took snapshots of the setting. These photographs assisted Loran in his analysis of Czanne's composition and served as the basis for this book, which analyzes over 30 of Czanne's paintings. This new edition brings Loran's milestone study up-to-date with a new foreword by art historian Richard Shiff, who places Loran's work into today's art historical context.

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Review

"I have learned a great deal from his book about modern painting in general. [Loran] devotes his attention mainly to Cezanne's concrete means and methods, and he arrives thereby at an understanding of Cezanne's art more essential than any other I have seen in print."--"The Nation

About the Author

Besides being an artist of considerable reputation, Erle Loran was Professor of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Richard Shiff holds the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and directs the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas, Austin. His books include Cezanne and the End of Impressionism (1984).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520054598
• ISBN 13: 9780520054592
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160