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Cezanne and the End of Impressionism: A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Shiff
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 587305
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0226753069
Dewey Decimal Number: 700
EAN: 9780226753065
ASIN: 0226753069
Publication Date: April 15, 1986
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Condition: THIS BOOK CONTAINS HIGHLIGHTS AND WRITING. COVER CURLING/CREASES,DOGEARS. STICKER REMNANTS. AS PICTURED.
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Drawing on a broad foundation in the history of nineteenth-century French art, Richard Shiff offers an innovative interpretation of Cezanne's painting. He shows how Cezanne's style met the emerging criteria of a "technique of originality" and how it satisfied critics sympathetic to symbolism as well as to impressionism. Expanding his study of the interaction of Cezanne and his critics, Shiff considers the problem of modern art in general. He locates the core of modernism in a dialectic of making (technique) and finding (originality). Ultimately, Shiff provides not only clarifying accounts of impressionism and symbolism but of a modern classicism as well.
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 Meticulously Dull February 15, 2005
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is probably a Phd dissertation. It spends a lot of time focused on sorting out trivial or outmoded arguments about Cezanne and how his art was created. All the while, the author offers little of any insight of his own other than his own highly equivocal attitude towards Cezanne. He obviously got bored writing this because Cezanne is a great and exciting artist but you would not know it from this author. Any doubts about what I am saying? Read the last paragraph of the book.
 you've never known cezanne...and you never will. September 28, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The title of my review may cause you to think that I didn't like this book...on the contrary, Shiff provides such a sophisticated argument about evolution of Cezanne's painting through his development of the concepts "maker and finder". Maker is the artist that "discovers" a style and develops that style in his/her work. Finder is the artist looking for a style. (Obviously an incredibly reductive summary of the two terms). Shiff compellingly argues that Cezanne exists as both maker and finder. This book isn't a quick read...but anyone attempting to tackle such a complex artist as Cezanne, couldn't possibly write a simple, one-dimensional book. I will be using this book in my impressionism class this winter. Hats off to Professor Shiff...I've never seen anything better written on Cezanne.
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