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Cezanne´s Other: The Portraits of Hortense
Susan Sidlauskas
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Description for Cezanne´s Other: The Portraits of Hortense
Hardback. In the voluminous scholarship that's been written on Paul Cezanne, little has been said about the 24 portraits in oil that Cezanne made of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cezanne, over an extended twenty-year period. This title focuses on these paintings as a group and looks at the differences that render many of them unrecognizable as the same person. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 color illustrations and 65 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; ACV; AGB; AGHF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 259 x 214 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1252.
In the voluminous scholarship that's been written on Paul Cezanne, little has been said about the twenty-four portraits in oil that Cezanne made of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cezanne, over an extended twenty-year period. In "Cezanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense", Susan Sidlauskas breaks new ground, focusing on these paintings as a group and looking particularly at the differences that render many of them unrecognizable as the same person. She argues that Cezanne sidestepped the conventional goals of portraiture-he avoids representing a consistent, identifiable physiognomy or conventional feminine postures and does not portray the subject's inner life-making lack of fixedness ... Read more
In the voluminous scholarship that's been written on Paul Cezanne, little has been said about the twenty-four portraits in oil that Cezanne made of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cezanne, over an extended twenty-year period. In "Cezanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense", Susan Sidlauskas breaks new ground, focusing on these paintings as a group and looking particularly at the differences that render many of them unrecognizable as the same person. She argues that Cezanne sidestepped the conventional goals of portraiture-he avoids representing a consistent, identifiable physiognomy or conventional feminine postures and does not portray the subject's inner life-making lack of fixedness ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520257450
SKU
V9780520257450
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About Susan Sidlauskas
Susan Sidlauskas is Associate Professor and Graduate Director of the Department of Art History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Body, Place, and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting and coauthor of Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture.
Reviews for Cezanne´s Other: The Portraits of Hortense
"This rich substantial reading raises Cezanne studies to a new level... Highly recommended." Choice "[Sidlauskas's] eloquent and penetrating visual analyses are a pleasure to read... [An] impressive and important book." Women's Art Journal "Sidlauskas's observations are detailed, sensitive and sometimes truly poetic."
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