If These Apples Should Fall - Cezanne and the Present (Clark T. J.)(Pevná vazba) - diskuze

For many artists and writers, the art of Paul Czanne represents the key to modernity. His paintings were a touchstone for writers such as Samuel Beckett as much as for artists such as Henri Matisse. Rainer Maria Rilke revered him deeply, as did Pablo Picasso. They thought if they lost touch with his sense of life, they lost an essential element of their own self-understanding.In If These Apples Should Fall, celebrated art historian T. J. Clark looks back on Czanne from our current moment when such judgments need justifying. What was it, he asks, that held Ce zanne's viewers spellbound?At the heart of Czanne's work lies a sense of disquiet: a hopelessness haunting the vividness, an anxiety beneath the splendid colors. Clark addresses this strangeness head-on, examining the art of Camille Pissarro, Matisse, and others in relation to Ce zanne's. Above all, he
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