Cézanne in Provence / Philip Conisbee and Denis Coutagne ; with contributions by Franc̦oise Cachin ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Conisbee, Philip.

Contributor:

Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906.

Coutagne, Denis.

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Musée Granet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906--Exhibitions.

Cézanne, Paul.

Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906.

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (France)--In art--Exhibitions.

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (France).

Landscapes in art--Exhibitions.

Landscapes in art.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Art.

Physical Description:

xiv, 349 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington : National Gallery of Art ; Aix-en-Provence : Musée Granet ; Paris : Réunion des musées nationaux ; New Haven : In association with Yale University Press, [2006]

Summary:

In his brief text, Denis Coutagne considers Cezanne for the enigma he and his art may always remain, but within the most elucidating of all possible contexts: Provence, especially around Aix, where Cezanne was born in 1839 and where he died in 1906, virtually "with brush in hand". This was the richly colored, sun-drenched environment in which Cezanne grew up with his closest friend, the novelist Emile Zola, conceived his passion for painting, developed his unique aesthetic, and painted his late and greatest masterpieces - the paintings devoted to such local motifs as the Jas de Bouffan, the Chateau-Noir, the Bibemus quarry, the nude bathers, L'Estaque, and Mont Sainte-Victoire. No other place could provide the dramatic contrasts of light and dark, color and chiaroscuro that were so at one with the brooding soul and luminous vision of Paul Cezanne, or so consistent with his attempts to produce an art of clarity and calm by bringing into dynamic equilibrium a host of warring opposites: wild nature and orderly form, the momentary and the immutable, color and line, surface and depth, density and transparency, awkwardness and grace, and, not least, his own personal conflicts, among them a conservative, Provencal background and unruly, bohemian tendencies.

Contents:

Cézanne's Provence / Philip Conisbee

Cézanne's youth and the intellectual and artistic milieu in Aix / Bruno Ely

Sites of forgetting: Cézanne and the Provenc̦al landscape tradition / Benedict Leca

Cézanne's late landscapes, or the prospect of death / Paul Smith

The Jas de Bouffan / Denis Coutagne

Cézanne's L'Estaque: "something more secret" / Véronique Serrano

Gardanne, Montbriand, and Bellevue / Bruno Ely

Le Tholonet, Bibémus, and the Château Noir / Philip Conisbee

The Atelier des Lauves / Philip Conisbee

The late paintings of Montagne Sainte-Victoire / Philip Conisbee

A Provenc̦al chronology of Cézanne / Isabelle Cahn.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition to be held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Jan. 29-May 7, 2006, and at the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence, June 9-Sept. 17, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [344]-346) and index.

ISBN:

0300113382

0894683195

OCLC:

61253898