Cézanne: Landscape into Art - Hardcover

Machotka, Pavel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 807467049X ISBN 13: 9788074670497

Publisher: Arbor Vitae, 2014

Synopsis

This classic study, now expanded, juxtaposes Cézanne's paintings with photographs of the landscapes they depict

Cézanne: Landscape into Art, which reprises and expands the classic 1996 publication by Yale University Press, does precisely this. In this highly praised study, the scholar Pavel Machotka juxtaposes photographs of the sites of Cézanne’s landscape paintings--whenever possible, from the same angle and at the same time of day that the artist painted the scenes--with reproductions of the relevant paintings, offering a uniquely practical analysis of the ways in which Cézanne transformed reality into art. Since the original publication of this volume, new sites have been discovered--the result of scrutinizing collections of contemporaneous photographs and land registry records. These discoveries have added considerably to our knowledge of Cézanne’s movements and have even helped to date his paintings more precisely. The new photographs, which range from postcards from the artist’s time or the author’s own color photographs, allow for a richer and better informed consideration of Cézanne’s oeuvre. In light of those discoveries, Machotka has rewritten the previous edition to offer a fresh, rich view of Cézanne’s artistic aims and accomplishments.

About this title

About the Author:

Pavel Machotka is Professor of Psychology and Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

From Library Journal:

For most of this century, artists and scholars have been amazed by the richness of Cezanne's work. Painter and photographer Machotka (psychology and art, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) builds upon past scholarship to illuminate the individual landscape sites and their relationship to Cezanne's paintings through the use of early black-and-white photographs and new color photos that he took himself. He wants to see how Cezanne interpreted what he saw and explores the artist's interest in observing nature and creating a painting using the structure of the flat surface to draw a parallel to nature. Like Cezanne, Machotka observes and uses nature, and he stresses Cezanne's intent as an artist rather than analyzing the elements of his paintings. The 144 illustrations include photographs, color reproductions of the paintings, and full-page details showing brushstrokes, color, and texture. This book about a painter written by a painter will appeal to painters as well as students and scholars of modern art.?Ellen Bates, New York
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About this edition

• Publisher: Arbor Vitae
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 807467049X
• ISBN 13: 9788074670497
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224