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Letters on Cézanne / Rainer Maria Rilke ; edited by Clara Rilke ; translated by Joel Agee.
LIBRA - Special PT2635.I65 Z4813 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.
- Standardized Title:
- Briefe über Cézanne. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. Correspondence.
- Rilke, Rainer Maria.
- Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906.
- Rilke, Clara.
- Authors, German--20th century--Correspondence.
- Authors, German.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Rilke, Clara--Correspondence.
- Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926--Knowledge and learning--Art.
- Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.
- Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906--Criticism and interpretation.
- Cézanne, Paul.
- Art.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Records and correspondence.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 84 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : North Point Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 086547639X
- 9780865476394
- OCLC:
- 48649197
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