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Book SynopsisIn the voluminous scholarship that's been written on Paul Cezanne, little has been said about the 24 portraits in oil that Cezanne made of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cezanne, over an extended twenty-year period. This title focuses on these paintings as a group and looks at the differences that render many of them unrecognizable as the same person.
Trade Review"This rich substantial reading raises Cezanne studies to a new level... Highly recommended." Choice "[Sidlauskas's] eloquent and penetrating visual analyses are a pleasure to read... [An] impressive and important book." Women's Art Journal "Sidlauskas's observations are detailed, sensitive and sometimes truly poetic." -- Karsten Schubert Burlington Magazine
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Seeing Cezanne 1. The Counter-Muse A Brief History 2. The Color of Emotion 3. The Materiality of Vision 4. Toward an Ideal Dissolving Difference Conclusion: The Woman in Question Appendix: Paintings of Hortense Fiquet Cezanne Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
