Cezanne by Alex Danchev
Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839-1906), many did not understand him or his work. This title covers the days and years of this visionary who would 'astonish Paris with an apple'. It is also a complete assessment of Cezanne's influence through artistic imaginations in our own time.
This is the best account of [Cézanne's] astonishing career and Danchev responds to the challenge with great sensitivity and genuine brioThis is a book which will survive the test of time. -- John Golding CBE, Emeritus Professor of the Royal Academy
A brave new life of Cézanne. . . Danchev's masterstroke is to use literature rather than art as his point of entry . . . Adds an important tranche of material to the Cezanne biography . . . much of this new material successfully illuminates Cezanne's inner life. An important book. -- Waldemar Januszczak * Sunday Times *
This is a great book - possibly the best - on one of the most respected impressionists. * Bookseller *
Alex Danchev compellingly guides us through Paul Cezanne's much mythologized life from his over-bearing father and early days in the South, as a school friend of Emile Zola, to his position as one of the revered creators of modern painting. The development of Cezanne's thinking and the construction of his paintings are explored alongside his complex relationship with other painters and the Parisian art establishment. Danchev has a great ability to weave his research and analysis into a compelling narrative: understanding what was required for Cezanne to make art modern. -- Sandy Nairne, National Portrait Gallery
A fantastically multidimensional Cézanne. . . . reads much like . . . one of Paul Cézanne's paintings . . . Mr. Danchev's portrait of Cezanne's life is heavy, thick with deceptively simple detail, and unendingly rich in offering context and detail for the reader to make sense of what contexts surrounded Cézanne, how Cezanne understood himself, and how the surrounding artistic milieu and climate informed Cezanne's paintings . . . Cezanne, A Life is a compelling and well-written biography of an enduring, enigmatic and complex figure in the changing world of turn-of-the-20th-century modernist art. -- Dr Lydia Pyne * New York Journal of Books *
Original, engaging and highly persuasive . . . his prose is witty, mobile and sensitive -- Julian Bell * Guardian *
Danchev introduces a fresh tone into the debates about this artist . . . a stimulating tapestry of ideas . . . More ambitious, more brilliant and more discursive, it has a lively, consistently interrogative authorial voice; it draws upon a rich hinterland of cultural knowledge; it makes interventions into the massive historiography on Cézanne, challenging some scholars, affirming others. It repeatedly dazzles . . . the reach of this book is unlikely ever be surpassed in the search for Cézanne. Danchev is not only a formidable historian; he is also closely attentive to the dynamics in any relationship . . . This book, which makes a major contribution to our understanding of this haunting figure, is enhanced by three fat wads of colour reproductions and made more seductive by the photographs of artists that infiltrate the text. -- Frances Spalding * Independent *
Richly documented. . . its rewards are many . . . Danchev's biography has a lightness as it avoids academic jargon and journeys into Cézanne's work with admirers who devoted serious thought to it. -- David D'Arcy * San Francisco Chronicle *
Mr Danchev's exhaustive research, not least of Zola's novels, provides a much fuller explanation of the man, which helps elucidate the art . . . many will be enthralled, inspired and perhaps even comforted by this book -- John McEwan * Country Life *
Enlightening . . . Accomplished and subtle -- Michael Prodger * Mail on Sunday *
It would be virtually impossible for anyone now to get back behind the wrong eyes, and the great strength of Alex Danchev's book is that it doesn't try. This is a biography for an age that takes Cézanne's supreme clarity, balance and pictorial logic for granted. Far from putting him back in the context he came from, it explores his relations with a world he shaped. Its cultural references range from Socrates to Wallace Stevens, Kafka to Beckett, Chaplin to Woody Allen . . . moving -- Hilary Spurling * Daily Telegraph *
A perceptive judge of pictures as well as a skilled narrator, Mr. Danchev excels at dissecting Cézanne's idiosyncratic, analytical approach to the depiction of nature, which eventually paved the way for the innovations of Cubism and modernist abstraction. Abundant color plates and exhaustive documentation round out this magisterial biography. -- Jonathan Lopez * Wall Street Journal *
Triumphant -- Peter Conrad * Observer *
FT Art Books of the Year: The most engrossing biography of an artist that I have read for years. With lightness of touch, depth of thought, a vast cultural hinterland and an assured understanding of painting, Danchev marvellously brings to life Cézanne the man, as well as the pioneering artist called "the father of us all" by Picasso. -- Jackie Wullschlager * FT *
Marvellous -- Frank Whitford * Sunday Times *
Art Books of Year: Notable among recent studies of arists -- Michael Prodger * Guardian *
A new view of an old subject ... an impressive achievement -- Christian House * Independent on Sunday *
Danchev's parameters are the work, the principles, the life, the art, the viewer, the reader. He writes as if he doesn't really need the century of critics, academics and theorists who have previously explained the painter ... Danchev's self-confidence is evident, and fully justified * TLS *
An enchanting literary exercise... exquisite in style... romantic, intense, affectionate and occasionally wry... a masterpiece. -- Brian Sewell * Evening Standard *
Superb -- Michael Prodger * Standpoint *
Danchev's Cézanne has... virtues of imaginative sympathy, independence of mind, and wide scholarship. He writes as if Cézanne's life and character are as immediately present before him as is the art -- Julian Barnes * TLS *
Engaging and well-researched -- Frederick Brown * LRB *
Magisterial ... Thanks to this wholly engrossing - and liberating - new life of the artist, we are made to feel closer to him than ever before. -- Richard Verdi * Burlington Magazine *
...serious, learned, and far-ranging * Australian Book Review *
A brave new life of Cézanne. . . Danchev's masterstroke is to use literature rather than art as his point of entry . . . Adds an important tranche of material to the Cezanne biography . . . much of this new material successfully illuminates Cezanne's inner life. An important book. -- Waldemar Januszczak * Sunday Times *
This is a great book - possibly the best - on one of the most respected impressionists. * Bookseller *
Alex Danchev compellingly guides us through Paul Cezanne's much mythologized life from his over-bearing father and early days in the South, as a school friend of Emile Zola, to his position as one of the revered creators of modern painting. The development of Cezanne's thinking and the construction of his paintings are explored alongside his complex relationship with other painters and the Parisian art establishment. Danchev has a great ability to weave his research and analysis into a compelling narrative: understanding what was required for Cezanne to make art modern. -- Sandy Nairne, National Portrait Gallery
A fantastically multidimensional Cézanne. . . . reads much like . . . one of Paul Cézanne's paintings . . . Mr. Danchev's portrait of Cezanne's life is heavy, thick with deceptively simple detail, and unendingly rich in offering context and detail for the reader to make sense of what contexts surrounded Cézanne, how Cezanne understood himself, and how the surrounding artistic milieu and climate informed Cezanne's paintings . . . Cezanne, A Life is a compelling and well-written biography of an enduring, enigmatic and complex figure in the changing world of turn-of-the-20th-century modernist art. -- Dr Lydia Pyne * New York Journal of Books *
Original, engaging and highly persuasive . . . his prose is witty, mobile and sensitive -- Julian Bell * Guardian *
Danchev introduces a fresh tone into the debates about this artist . . . a stimulating tapestry of ideas . . . More ambitious, more brilliant and more discursive, it has a lively, consistently interrogative authorial voice; it draws upon a rich hinterland of cultural knowledge; it makes interventions into the massive historiography on Cézanne, challenging some scholars, affirming others. It repeatedly dazzles . . . the reach of this book is unlikely ever be surpassed in the search for Cézanne. Danchev is not only a formidable historian; he is also closely attentive to the dynamics in any relationship . . . This book, which makes a major contribution to our understanding of this haunting figure, is enhanced by three fat wads of colour reproductions and made more seductive by the photographs of artists that infiltrate the text. -- Frances Spalding * Independent *
Richly documented. . . its rewards are many . . . Danchev's biography has a lightness as it avoids academic jargon and journeys into Cézanne's work with admirers who devoted serious thought to it. -- David D'Arcy * San Francisco Chronicle *
Mr Danchev's exhaustive research, not least of Zola's novels, provides a much fuller explanation of the man, which helps elucidate the art . . . many will be enthralled, inspired and perhaps even comforted by this book -- John McEwan * Country Life *
Enlightening . . . Accomplished and subtle -- Michael Prodger * Mail on Sunday *
It would be virtually impossible for anyone now to get back behind the wrong eyes, and the great strength of Alex Danchev's book is that it doesn't try. This is a biography for an age that takes Cézanne's supreme clarity, balance and pictorial logic for granted. Far from putting him back in the context he came from, it explores his relations with a world he shaped. Its cultural references range from Socrates to Wallace Stevens, Kafka to Beckett, Chaplin to Woody Allen . . . moving -- Hilary Spurling * Daily Telegraph *
A perceptive judge of pictures as well as a skilled narrator, Mr. Danchev excels at dissecting Cézanne's idiosyncratic, analytical approach to the depiction of nature, which eventually paved the way for the innovations of Cubism and modernist abstraction. Abundant color plates and exhaustive documentation round out this magisterial biography. -- Jonathan Lopez * Wall Street Journal *
Triumphant -- Peter Conrad * Observer *
FT Art Books of the Year: The most engrossing biography of an artist that I have read for years. With lightness of touch, depth of thought, a vast cultural hinterland and an assured understanding of painting, Danchev marvellously brings to life Cézanne the man, as well as the pioneering artist called "the father of us all" by Picasso. -- Jackie Wullschlager * FT *
Marvellous -- Frank Whitford * Sunday Times *
Art Books of Year: Notable among recent studies of arists -- Michael Prodger * Guardian *
A new view of an old subject ... an impressive achievement -- Christian House * Independent on Sunday *
Danchev's parameters are the work, the principles, the life, the art, the viewer, the reader. He writes as if he doesn't really need the century of critics, academics and theorists who have previously explained the painter ... Danchev's self-confidence is evident, and fully justified * TLS *
An enchanting literary exercise... exquisite in style... romantic, intense, affectionate and occasionally wry... a masterpiece. -- Brian Sewell * Evening Standard *
Superb -- Michael Prodger * Standpoint *
Danchev's Cézanne has... virtues of imaginative sympathy, independence of mind, and wide scholarship. He writes as if Cézanne's life and character are as immediately present before him as is the art -- Julian Barnes * TLS *
Engaging and well-researched -- Frederick Brown * LRB *
Magisterial ... Thanks to this wholly engrossing - and liberating - new life of the artist, we are made to feel closer to him than ever before. -- Richard Verdi * Burlington Magazine *
...serious, learned, and far-ranging * Australian Book Review *
Alex Danchev is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. Cézanne: A Life (2012) won the Apollo Book of the Year Award in 2013, jointly with his new translation of The Letters of Paul Cézanne(2013). He is the author of a number of other internationally acclaimed biographies, and two influential collections of essays, On Art and War and Terror (2009) and On Good and Evil and the Grey Zone (2015); and editor of the best-selling 100 Artists' Manifestos (2011). He is currently working on a life of Magritte.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846681653 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846681650 |
| Titel | Cezanne |
| Autor | Alex Danchev |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Profile Books Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2012-10-18 |
| Seitenanzahl | 512 |
| Preise | Winner of Apollo Magazine Book of the Year 2013 (UK), Short-listed for Spear's Book Awards 2013 (UK), Short-listed for Library of Virginia Literary Awards 2013 (UK), Short-listed for American Library in Paris Award 2013 (UK) |
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