Cézanne's Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint (Refiguring Modernism) by D’Souza, Aruna - 2008-04-15

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University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xiv, 157 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 x 27 cm. Refiguring Modernism Series. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Cezanne's Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint discusses an epochal shift in the representation of sexuality in modern art with the images of nudes made by Paul Cezanne. Cezanne was the first painter of the twentieth century who, through careful study of avant-garde precedents including Manet and Courbet, would transform the material qualities of his art into an erotics of paint--that is to say, an eroticization of medium, of the liquidity of paint and the resistance of the canvas, of the trembling of the contour, of the oiliness of the pigment, and of countless other painterly effects. By dislocating the erotics of his subject from the bodies he depicted and transposing it onto these formalequalities,… Read More

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Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2008. Paperback. New. illustrated edition. 176 pages. 9.50x10.50x0.75 inches.

University Park, PA, USA: Pennsilvania State University Press, 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 162pp. Pictorial matt medium weight card covers; numerous illustrations throughout. Landscape 8vo. A large and heavy volume which may incur an additional charge for overseas delivery. Light shelf wear to covers. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight.

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. Paperback. Like New. Factory sealed. 176p. Measures 10.5x9.5 inches. 42 color and 47 black-and-white illustrations. Discusses an epochal shift in the representation of sexuality in modern art with the images of nudes made by Cezanne. In order to discover a new way of looking at these strange works, he engages with arguments about these paintings in the writings of Meyer Schapiro, Tamar Garb, and T. J. Clark.

Paperback / softback. New. Discusses an epochal shift in the representation of sexuality in modern art with the images of nudes made by Paul Cezanne. This book proposes a way of reading Cezanne's biography as a form of art criticism. It also proposes a reading of Cezanne's images of bathers that accounts for their strangenesses and for the pleasures they produce.