Conversations with Cézanne (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art)

Conversations with Cézanne (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art) by Doran, Michael. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780520225176.

Michael Doran has gathered texts by contemporaries of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)―including artists, critics, and writers―that illuminate the influential painters philosophy of art especially in his late years. The book includes historically important essays by a dozen different authors, including Emile Bernard, Joaquim Gasquet, Maurice Denis, and Ambroise Vollard, along with selections from Cézannes own letters. In addition to the material included in the original French edition of the book, which has also been published in German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese, this edition contains an introduction written especially for it by noted Cézanne scholar Richard Shiff. The book closes with Lawrence Gowings magisterial essay, "The Logic of Organized Sensations," first published in 1977 and long out of print. Cézannes work, and the thinking that lay behind it, have been of inestimable importance to the artists who followed him. This gathering of writings will be of enormous interest to artists, writers, art historians―indeed to all students of modern art.