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Author Shiff, Richard, author

Title Cézanne and the end of impressionism : a study of the theory, technique, and critical evaluation of modern art / Richard Shiff
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1984]
©1984

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Description xviii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Part 1. The end of impressionism. Introduction: the subjectivity of impressionism -- Defining impressionism and the impression -- Impressionism, truth, and positivism -- The subject/object distinction, critical evaluation, and technical procedure -- Impressionism and symbolism as modes of artistic expressionism -- Part 2. The technique of originality. Introduction: Matisse and origins; impressionism as modernism; making and finding -- Academics and independents: theories of making and theories of finding -- Corot, Monet, Cezanne, and the technique of originality -- Bernard and Denis meet Cezanne: classical tradition without technical convention -- Roger Fry: found vision and made design
Part 3. Seeing Cezanne. Introduction: postimpressionism and expression -- The Cezanne legend -- The Poussin legend -- Did Cezanne have a theory? -- Cezanne's practice -- Part 4. Conclusion: making a find. Making a find
Analysis French paintings Cézanne, Paul - Critical studies
Notes Pbk. ed. published 1986
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject CeÌzanne, Paul, 1839-1906
Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906.
Impressionism (Art) -- France.
Modernism (Art) -- France.
Painters -- France -- Psychology.
Painting, French -- 19th century.
Visual perception.
Artists -- Psychology -- France.
LC no. 83018142
ISBN 0226753050
0226753069
9780226753058
9780226753065