Cézanne's Composition: Analysis of His Form with Diagrams and Photographs of His MotifsThis book had its provenance in the late 1920s, when Erle Loran, then a young artist who wanted to fathom the mysteries of Cezanne's structural form, took up residence in the master's studio in Aix-en-Provence. For several years he lived there and painted, and when he came across familiar motifs in the countryside, he took snapshots of the setting. These photographs assisted Loran in his analysis of Cezanne's composition and served as the basis for this book, which analyzes over 30 of Cezanne's paintings. This new edition brings Loran's milestone study up-to-date with a new foreword by art historian Richard Shiff, who places Loran's work into today's art historical context. |
Contents
Cézanne as Theorist and Artist | 7 |
An Illustrated Glossary | 17 |
How Cézanne Organized a Picture | 25 |
Introductory Analysis of a Still Life | 39 |
Problems of Perspective | 45 |
PAINTINGS ANALYZED | 51 |
The Sainte Victoire from Bellevue ΙΟΙ | 58 |
The Problem of Scale and the Control of Volume and Space | 59 |
View of LEstaque | 107 |
Provençal Mas near Gardanne | 108 |
Realism and Abstraction | 111 |
Le Pont des Trois Sautets II 2 | 112 |
Trees and Rocks at Bibemus | 113 |
The Quarry at Bibemus | 114 |
In the Forest of the Château Noir | 116 |
Rocks in the Forest of the Château Noir | 118 |
Distortion through the Shifting of Eye Levels | 75 |
The Problem of Distortion through Tipping Axes | 81 |
Distortion in Drawing | 87 |
Aerial Perspective | 97 |
The Sainte Victoire at Early Morning | 102 |
Portrait of Kahnweiler by Picasso p 103 | 103 |
The Sainte Victoire from Les Lauves | 104 |
LEstaque | 106 |
Further Comparisons | 119 |
The Mill near the Pont des Trois Sautets | 121 |
View of Gardanne | 122 |
The Sainte Victoire from Bellevue | 124 |
The Sainte Victoire from Beaureceuil | 127 |
Landscape | 128 |
Conclusion | 131 |
Other editions - View all
Cézanne's Composition: Analysis of His Form, with Diagrams and Photographs ... Erle Loran Limited preview - 1963 |
Cézanne's Composition: Analysis of His Form, with Diagrams and Photographs ... Erle Loran Limited preview - 1963 |
Cézanne's Composition: Analysis of His Form, with Diagrams and Photographs ... Erle Loran Limited preview - 1970 |
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