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Author Medina, Joyce, 1953-

Title Cézanne and modernism : the poetics of painting / Joyce Medina
Published Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (x, 250 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series, the margins of literature
SUNY series, the margins of literature.
Contents I. Cezanne and the Unity of Modernism. Modernism: Technique vs. Content. Cezanne: The Late Work -- II. From Impressionism to Cezanne: Psychological Theories. The Impression as Medium. The Redefinition of Sensation: Psychology and Epistemology. Psychological Positivism: Taine. Psychological Eclecticism: Psychophysics. Empathetic and Abstract Psychologism. The Bergsonian Synthesis. The Blending of Horizons: Bergson, Cezanne, Modernism -- III. From Impressionism to Cezanne: Aesthetic Theories. The Impressionists: From Sensations to Signs. From Truth to Symbol: Optics and Color Science. The Symbolists: From Signs to Images. In Conclusion: Cezanne, the Potential Synthesis -- IV. The Path into Modernism: Four Modalities of Imagery in Cezanne. The "Legendary" Cezanne. "Realization" in Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics. Cezanne's Early Period (1863-95). Symbolic Images: Realisation des Sensations. Cezanne's Experimental Period (1880-95). Plastic Images: Realisation sur Nature. Modulation. Condensation. The Motif. The Period of Serialization (1890-1906). Contemplative Images: Realisation du Motif. Visionary Images: Realisation du Motif -- V. Death and Non-Figuration: Cezanne's Ultimate Synthesis. The Pictorial Materials of the Imagination: Analytic Components and Antecedents of the Shifting Motif of The Cardplayers. The Narrative Materials of the Imagination: Scenes of Cardplaying and Card Fables as Sources of Emplotment. The Affective Materials: The Ugolino Drawing and Other Biographical Images as Indistinct Elements of Motif in The Cardplayers. Excursus: On the Mythology of Modern Death. Conclusion: The Trump Card/Players
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-243) and index
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Subject Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906 fast
Cézanne, Paul. swd
Subject Impressionism (Art) -- France
Modernism (Art) -- France
Painting, French -- 19th century.
Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.
Art -- Psychology.
Aesthetics, Modern.
ART -- History -- General.
Aesthetics, Modern
Art -- Psychology
Impressionism (Art)
Modernism (Art)
Painting, French
Moderne
Ästhetik
Visual Arts.
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.
Painting.
France
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 94031716
ISBN 0585045429
9780585045429