Volume 43, Number 1 · January 11, 1996
Under Cézanne's Spell
By John Golding
Cézanne 1995—January 7, 1996; Tate Gallery, London, February 8—April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 30—August 18, 1996
an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, September 25,, Catalog of the exhibition by Françoise Cachin, by Joseph J. Rishel
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 599 pp., 350 FF
Cézanne: A Biography
by John Rewald
Abrams, 288 pp., $75.00
Paul Cézanne: The Bathers
by Mary Louise Krumrine
Thames and Hudson, 321 pp., $65.00
Lost Earth: A Life of Cézanne
by Philip Callow
Ivan R. Dee, 395 pp., $30.00
Cézanne
by Richard Verdi
Thames and Hudson, 216 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Cézanne
by Philippe Dagen
Flammarion, 174 pp., 98 FF
Le Paradis de Cézanne
by Philippe Sollers
Gallimard, 151 pp., 250 FF
Paul Cézanne, born in 1839, was the only artist of his age to span several generations in order to become, so to speak, an honorary twentieth-century painter. The Fauve painters, who launched the first visual movement of the century, were inspired by Cézanne and came increasingly under his spell. The Cubists to a man recognized Cézanne as their mentor; each one of them looked at him in a slightly different way, and, to a large extent, it was through pooling their conclusions that they succeeded in launching their supremely revolutionary movement. Mondrian had studied Cézanne before he turned his attention to Cubism, and it is interesting, if futile, to speculate whether he could have found his way into total abstraction through Cézanne alone. The German Expressionists of both the Brücke and the Blaue Reiter groups revered Cézanne but were never quite sure how best to make use of him.
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