Cezanne and American modernism
By: edited by Gail Stavitsky, Katherine Rothkopf.
Contributors: Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906.; Stavitsky, Gail, 1954-; Rothkopf, Katherine.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Montclair Art Museum; Baltimore Museum of Art; Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Montclair, N.J.]; [Baltimore, Md.]; New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780300147155; 9780982471609
Subjects: Cézanne, Paul, -- 1839-1906 -- Public opinion -- Exhibitions; Public opinion -- United States -- Exhibitions; Modernism (Art) -- United States -- Exhibitions; Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Description: "Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) is one of the great geniuses in the history of art, and his work has influenced a multitude of artists throughout Europe. Across the Atlantic, Cezanne's paintings had a similarly catalytic effect on artists emerging in the United States during the early twentieth century. Cezanne and American Modernism is the first book devoted specifically to Cezanne's impact on American art and his works' enthusiastic reception there. It shows how American painters and photographers cemented his legacy by spreading their respect and admiration for his vision with their own art, writings, and exhibitions." "Examining Cezanne's influence on more than a generation of American artists, this illustrated book features paintings and photography by Marsden Hartley, Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Charles Demuth, Arshile Gorky, Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Maurice Prendergast, Morgan Russell, Max Weber, and many others. Cezanne's transformative impact on each artist's aesthetic vision is explored, while extensive essays shed new light on a wide range of subjects, from American collectors of his work and his shaping of modernism in the American West to the lasting resonance of his art on Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lenders; title: Foreword / Doreen Bulger, Patterson Sims, and Lora Urbanelli; title: Acknowledgements / Katherine Rothkopf and Gail Stavitsky; title: Introduction / Gail Stavitsky; title: Cezanne and American modernism / Gail Stavitsky; title: Cezanne, the "plastic," and American artist/critics / Jill Anderson Kyle; title: Cezanne crosses the Atlantic : Vollard and American collections / Jayne Warman; title: The Cone sisters : discovering Cezanne and modern art / Katy Rothkopf; title: Cezanne and modernist American photography : how a few corking Cezannes helped reshape photographic art in America / Ellen Handy; title: Cezanne and the American West / Jerry N. Smith; title: Epilogue : Cezanne and abstract expressionism / Mary Tompkins Lewis.