Synopses & Reviews
Praise for the first edition:"I have learned a great deal from his book about modern painting in general. [Loran] devotes his attention mainly to Cézanne's concrete means and methods, and he arrives thereby at an understanding of Cézanne's art more essential than any other I have seen in print."--Clement Greenberg, Nation
About the Author
Besides being an artist of considerable reputation, Erle Loran was Professor of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Richard Shiff holds the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and directs the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas, Austin. His books include Cézanne and the End of Impressionism (1984).
Table of Contents
Paintings Analyzed
Foreword
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
I. Introduction
II. Cézanne as Theorist and Artist
III. An Illustrated Glossary
IV. How Cézanne Organized a Picture
V. Cézanne's Materials and Method
VI. Introductory Analysis of a Still Life
VII. Problems of Perspective
VIII. The Problem of Scale and the Control of Volume and Space
IX. Distortion through the Shifting of Eye Levels
X. The Problem of Distortion through Tipping Axes
XI. Distortion in Drawing
XII. Aerial Perspective
XIII. Realism and Abstraction
XIV. Further Comparisons
XV. Conclusion
Biographical Note
Index