With 32-pages of full-color inserts; and black-and-white illustrations throughout.Alex Danchev gives us the first comprehensive assessment of the revolutionary work and restless life of Paul Ceacute;zanne to be published in decades. One of the most influential painters of his time and beyond; Ceacute;zanne was the exemplary artist-creator of the modern age who changed the way we see the world. With brisk intellect; rich documentation; and eighty-eight color and fifty-two black-and-white illustrations; Danchev tells the story of an artist who was originally considered a madman; a barbarian; and a sociopath. Beginning with the unsettled teenager in Aix; Danchev takes us through the trials of a painter who believed that art must be an expression of temperament but was tormented by self-doubt; who was rejected by the Salon for forty years; who sold nothing outside his immediate circle until his thirties; who had a family that he kept secret from his father until his forties; who had his first exhibition at the age of fifty-sixmdash;but who fiercely maintained his revolutionary beliefs. Danchev shows us how the beliefs Ceacute;zanne held and the life he led became the obsession and inspiration of artists; writers; poets; and philosophers from Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso to Samuel Beckett and Allen Ginsberg. A special feature of the book is a remarkable series of Ceacute;zannersquo;s self-portraits; reproduced in full color. Ceacute;zanne is not only the fascinating life of a visionary artist and extraordinary human being but also a searching assessment of his ongoing influence in the artistic imagination of our time. A stunning portrait of a monumentally important artist; this is a biography not to be missed.From the Hardcover edition.
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