19th century french art
19th century french art history
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authorial function
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culte du moi
early french modernism
early symbolism
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expression
french art
human mind
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modern art
modern painting
modern sociality
modernity
murder
neo romanticism
painter
paintings
paul cezanne
positivist
post impressionist
psychological intensity
repetitive
sexual violence
the phillips collection book prize series
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- ISBN 9780520273399
- Weight: 953g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2012
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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"Cezanne, Murder and Modern Life" offers an original approach to early French modernism, one informed by the art's unprecedented psychological intensity. Focusing on the early work of Paul Cezanne, it offers a competing version for modern painting rooted in the evocation of emotive "expression," emblematized by scenes of murder, sexual violence, and anxious domesticity. Mobilizing contexts rarely brought to bear on our understanding of art in the age of Impressionism, let alone the work of Cezanne, this book investigates the "culte du moi" and the conceptions of authorial function in art and literature, theories of neo-romanticism and early symbolism of the 1860s, as well as psycho-physiological analyses of the human mind and other positivist theories of modern sociality and instinctuality popularized during the Second Empire and early Third Republic.
Andre Dombrowski is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. This book is winner of the 2009 Phillips Book Prize
