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Cézanne´s Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint

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Description for Cézanne´s Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint Paperback. Series: Refiguring Modernism. Num Pages: 176 pages, 39 colour/41 duotones. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250 x 274 x 20. Weight in Grams: 904.

Cézanne’s Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint discusses an epochal shift in the representation of sexuality in modern art with the images of nudes made by Paul Cézanne. Cézanne was the first painter of the twentieth century who, through careful study of avant-garde precedents including Manet and Courbet, would transform the material qualities of his art into an erotics of paint—that is to say, an eroticization of medium, of the liquidity of paint and the resistance of the canvas, of the trembling of the contour, of the oiliness of the pigment, and of countless other painterly effects. By dislocating ... Read more

Cézanne’s Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint proposes a new way of reading Cézanne’s biography not simply as a form of myth-making but also as a form of art criticism; at the same time, it proposes a reading of Cézanne’s images of bathers that accounts for their strangenesses and for the pleasures they produce. It is a book that is fiercely engaged with arguments about these paintings that have come before, mining the writings of figures such as Meyer Schapiro, Tamar Garb, and T. J. Clark to discover a new way of looking at these strange works.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Refiguring Modernism
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271032146
SKU
V9780271032146
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About Aruna D’souza
Aruna D'Souza is Assistant Professor of Art History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. She is the editor of Self and History: A Tribute to Linda Nochlin (2000) and The Invisible Flâneuse? Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris (2006).

Reviews for Cézanne´s Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint
“An astute and original analysis of Cézanne’s key canvases, the Bathers, and through them, of the equally central issue in Cézanne scholarship, namely, the erotic dimension of his vision . . . a stimulating, truly provocative study.” —Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard University “For the lay reader, Cézanne’s Bathers can be challenging at points, but it’s a rewarding look at how ... Read more

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