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Letters on Cézanne by Rainer Maria Rilke (2002, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-10086547639X

ISBN-139780865476394

eBay Product ID (ePID)27038835488

Product Key Features

Edition2

Book TitleLetters on Cézanne

Number of Pages112 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

TopicEuropean / German, Individual Artists / General, Letters, Criticism & Theory

GenreLiterary Criticism, Art, Literary Collections

AuthorRainer Maria Rilke

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight5.3 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-059097

Dewey Edition19

ReviewsThe greatness of Cezanne could be conveyed only by an artist equally great." --Howard Moss, The New Yorker, The greatness of Cezanne could be conveyed only by an artist equally great." --Howard Moss,The New Yorker, "The greatness of Cezanne could be conveyed only by an artist equally great." -- Howard Moss, The New Yorker

Dewey Decimal831/.912

SynopsisRilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes. Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life. Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his New Poems . But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters -- passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge . Letters on Cezanne is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.

LC Classification NumberPT2635.I65Z4813 2002