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Cézanne's Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint

Cézanne's Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint

D'Souza, Aruna

Paperback

Series: Refiguring Modernism, Book 8

Art Criticism & TheoryArt HistoryGeneral Art

ISBN10: 0271032146
ISBN13: 9780271032146
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Apr 15 2008
Pages: 176
Weight: 2.00
Height: 0.63 Width: 10.64 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

Cézanne's Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint discusses an epochal shift in the representation of sexuality in modern art with the images of nudes made by Paul Cézanne. Cézanne was the first painter of the twentieth century who, through careful study of avant-garde precedents including Manet and Courbet, would transform the material qualities of his art into an erotics of paint--that is to say, an eroticization of medium, of the liquidity of paint and the resistance of the canvas, of the trembling of the contour, of the oiliness of the pigment, and of countless other painterly effects. By dislocating the erotics of his subject from the bodies he depicted and transposing it onto these formal qualities, Cézanne set the stage for the explorations of a number of later artists, including Henri Matisse, who saw in Cézanne the possibilities of the modern painting of the nude.

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