The story of Cezanne's fame and influence cannot be separated from his "unfinished" works. Immediately after his death, these works were already held in high regard both by Matisse and the Fauves, and by Picasso and the cubists. With these works, Cezanne opened up the 20th century and pointed the way to the future. Examining paintings and watercolours, including the monumental still lifes and the late paintings from Montagne Saint Victoire, this book reveals that Cezanne's "unfinished" works are more than simple sketches or ...
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The story of Cezanne's fame and influence cannot be separated from his "unfinished" works. Immediately after his death, these works were already held in high regard both by Matisse and the Fauves, and by Picasso and the cubists. With these works, Cezanne opened up the 20th century and pointed the way to the future. Examining paintings and watercolours, including the monumental still lifes and the late paintings from Montagne Saint Victoire, this book reveals that Cezanne's "unfinished" works are more than simple sketches or preparatory studies. Comparisons of finished painted works with his so-called "unfinished" ones provide insights into his creative process, making it clear what Cezanne meant by the gradual concretization of colour forms.
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Add this copy of Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished to cart. $94.50, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Hatje Cantz Publishers.
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VG/Good+ exlibrary copy from art college. Stamps on text block edges, label on dustjacket spine, check-out slip. Otherwise a very nice copy. Dustjacket is in mylar. Light sage cloth, dark blue & color illus. dust jacket, 408 pp. 147 color, numerous bw plates. Text in English. Issued in conjunction with several 2000 exhibitions of these paintings by Paul Cézanne. Includes six essays, catalogue, chronology, and bibliography. The paintings are discussed in detail and offer the reader an opportunity to reconstruct Cézanne's artistic work on the basis of their varying degrees of completion. Please note that this is a HARDBACK copy of this title. Contents as follows: Finished--unfinished / Klaus Albrecht Schröder--A subject for an exhibition / Felix Baumann--About the exhibition / Walter Feilchenfeldt--Beyond the uniform picture surface / Felix Baumann--Precarious balance: Cézanne and the unfinished / Gottfried Boehm--From the incomplete to the unfinished: Réalisation in the work of Paul Cézanne / Evelyn Benesch--The stake in the pictorial flesh: disruptions in Cézanne's oeuvre / Friedrich Teja Bach--Tableau/peinture: critical responses to Cézanne's unfinished works / Terence Maloon--Mark, motif, materiality: the Cézanne effect in the twentieth century / Richard Shiff.
