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Book SynopsisAfter Cézanne is a sequence of fifty-six poems exploring the life and work of the post-impressionist painter Paul Cézanne. Reimagining his friendships with Zola and Pissarro, his impact on Matisse and Picasso, as well as his posthumous reputation, Maitreyabandhu celebrates Cézanne’s apples and card players in poems at once tender, urgent and amused. The book includes 26 colour reproductions, a preface by Christopher Lloyd (Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, 1988-2005) and extensive textual notes. After Cézanne is Maitreyabandhu’s third collection.
Trade ReviewAll the aspects of Cézanne’s ordeal are fused together in Maitreyabandhu’s remarkable poems in which the varied forms of composition and wide range of reference provide a refreshingly unique insight into Cézanne’s art. What is achieved here is an incomparable poetic expression of the artist’s personal idiosyncrasies and manifold achievements. -- Christopher Lloyd * (Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures 1988-2005) *
These remarkable poems remind us of the close kinship between painting and poetry. Maitreyabandhu shares insights into Cézanne that can, perhaps, only be grasped through poetry. The poems speak eloquently of Cézanne’s art and of the experience of trying to comprehend a great artist. -- Barnaby Wright * Deputy Head of the Courtauld Gallery, London *
A resoundingly authentic collection with no lapses in concentration. Maitreyabandhu’s understanding of Cézanne and his motivation are endlessly persuasive without ever crossing into presumption. A rich and intense book, unashamed of its erudition and its powerfully keen sight. -- Sasha Dugdale
Table of Contents9 Foreword by Christopher Lloyd 16 Cézanne and the Colour Palette 17 The Method of Loci 19 One Hundred Cloche Hats 21 The Apple’s Progress 22 The Ambiguities of Place 23 Angels in Peckham 25 The Black Clock 26 The Mannequins of Paris 27 Madame Cézanne with Anti-Representational Effects 29 Five Studies for Marie-Hortense 31 Self-portrait of the Artist Wearing a Hat 32 Rilke on the Place de la Concorde 33 Sunday Bells 35 Cézanne’s Dog 36 The House of the Hanged Man 37 The Pissarro Portrait 39 Cézanne in the Studio 41 This Painting of a Mountain 43 Man with a Pipe 45 Léontine 49 Cézanne’s Peasant 51 The Artist’s Mother 52 The Church of Saint-Jean-de-Malte 53 Einstein’s Watch 57 Human Things 58 Apple, Chairback and Dish 59 The Disfluency of Cézanne 60 Kukai in Provence 61 Il Était Plus Grand Que Nous ne le Croyions 63 Afterthought 64 The Red Teapot 65 Art Tutorial 67 Rilke Writes to His Wife from the Salon D’Automne 69 Morning in the Studio: Les Grandes Baigneuses 70 This Perpetual Dazzlement 71 Cut-outs 73 Matisse in the Studio 75 Roger Fry at Langham Place 76 For the Artist of Anahorish 77 The Quarry at Bibémus 78 Sufficient Blueness to Give the Feel of Air 79 A Worm Composing on a Straw 81 Salt 83 At the Vollard Shop 84 The Three Inseparables 85 Bathers at Rest 87 L’Œuvre 88 Burnt Lakes 89 Two Dozen Mongoose-Hair Brushes 91 The Mountain Ode 93 Under Linden Trees 95 Vallier 96 Opusculum 97 On Rough Ground 99 Two Ways of Closing 101 A Horde of Destructions 103 Notes
