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The Letters of Paul Cezanne
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Here is the long-awaited and much needed new translation of the correspondence of Paul Cezanne, known as the 'father of modern art'. The existing collection in English, produced in the 1930s, is dated, inaccurate and incomplete; for this book, Alex Danchev has gone back to the original manuscript letters, clearing up decades of questionable scholarship and producing a fresh, honest and accurate translation. In his introduction Danchev paints a picture of Cezanne as a singular thinker and an uncompromising seeker after artistic truth - qualities that shine through in the letters, but that many of his contemporaries failed to appreciate or comprehend. Danchev fills in the gaps here and in his many notes, revealing the man's very human hopes and fears as he strove to harness his sensations and artistic passion. The result is a collection of over 250 letters, written to family, friends, fellow artists and dealers, and encompassing major cultural figures of the late nineteenth century.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
'Poignant and powerful ... for all his travails, Cezanne could use words with the same powerful effect with which he laid on patches of colour' - Sunday Times 'Danchev's new translation and edition of Cezanne's letters offers the most riveting portrait of the artist yet' - Guardian 'An outstanding - and gloriously readable - feat of scholarship' - Apollo 'Cezanne's letters are as essential to understanding the painting of the past century as were Van Gogh's and Pissarro's' - RA Magazine