Cezanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture

by Nina Maria Athanassoglou-Kallmyer

In 1886 Paul C zanne left Paris permanently to settle in his native Aix-en-Provence. Nina M. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer argues that, far from an escapist venture like Gauguin's stay in Brittany or Monet's visits to Normandy, C zanne's departure from Paris was a deliberate abandonment intimately connected with late-nineteenth-century French regionalist politics. Like many of his childhood friends, C zanne detested the homogenizing effects of modernism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226423085
• ISBN13: 9780226423081
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.8" x 11.2"