Trevor Winkfield
Cézanne's Mardi Gras
From Tether 1, page 133:
“Cézanne always had two audiences, the public one and the painterly one, which took the better part of a century to coalesce. One hundred years ago, if Cézanne was considered at all by the public, he could be dismissed as a madman, a denizen of that painterly loony bin whose most notorious inmate was Vincent van Gogh. A handful of misguided aesthetes were reputed to worship him as “Cézannah” but that was about as far as it went: Cézanne was no serious threat to the academy. Jumping ahead four decades, and arriving at mid-century, Modernism had not only entered the mainstream but taken it over, installing a new academy where Cézanne was increasingly viewed as an Old Master, formerly radical but now a perfectly acceptable painter of still lifes and landscapes. However, no sooner had this popular misconception taken root than a shift began to occur in History’s overview of Cézanne’s capabilities.”
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Tether 1 contains essays by Bill Berkson on the influence of Piero Della Francesca; W. C. Bamberger presents never before published translations of the surrealist art critic Emil Szittya; Holly Day discusses George Sugarman’s polychrome sculptures from the 1960’s; John Willenbecher unearths something out of the ordinary about Chardin’s drawers; Judith Stein writes about the little known textile works of Katherine Porter; Douglas Crase reflects on sitting for a portrait; Trevor Winkfield unpacks the mysteries of Cezanne’s masterpiece, Mardi Gras; Nathan Kernan leaks a preview of his forthcoming biography on James Schuyler; Bill Zavatsky translates Robert Desnos’s 1926 book “It’s The Seven League Boots This Phrase ‘I See Myself’”; a selection of pages from Gerald Murphy’s notebooks; Chris Byrne introduces us to the visionary work of Susan Te Kahurangi King; Paul Hammond recalls his childhood awakening to the world of cinema; Charles North debunks the threat of poetry; and an essay on walking in the English countryside by A.J.A. Symons.
Printed in the USA
Edition of 500
9 black and white images and 59 color images
Item Weight : 0.82 pounds
Paperback : 180 pages
ISBN: 978069237617151500
Product Dimensions : 6 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches
Publisher : Sienese Shredder Editions; Pap/Com Edition (2015)
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