Letters on Cézanne - Softcover

Rainer Maria Rilke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 086547639X ISBN 13: 9780865476394

Publisher: North Point Press, 2002

Synopsis

Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art

For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.

Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life.

Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his New Poems. But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters -- passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Letters on Cezanne is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.

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Letters on Cezanne Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art "For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes." Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing rev... Full description

Review:

"The greatness of Cezanne could be conveyed only by an artist equally great." --Howard Moss, The New Yorker

About this edition

• Publisher: North Point Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 086547639X
• ISBN 13: 9780865476394
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 112