Cézanne's Composition: Analysis of His Form with Diagrams and Photographs of His Motifs

by Erle Loran

Overview

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1943.

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ISBN-13:	9780520322202
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	11/10/2023
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Table of Contents

	Paintings Analyzed	ix
	Foreword	xi
	Preface to the Third Edition	xxi
	Preface to the Second Edition	xxiii
	Acknowledgments	xxv
I	Introduction	1
II	Cezanne as Theorist and Artist	7
III	An Illustrated Glossary	17
IV	How Cezanne Organized a Picture	25
V	Cezanne's Materials and Method	35
VI	Introductory Analysis of a Still Life [Plate I]	39
VII	Problems of Perspective [Plates II-IX]	45
VIII	The Problem of Scale and the Control of Volume and Space [Plates X-XIII]	59
IX	Distortion through the Shifting of Eye Levels [Plates XIV and XV]	75
X	The Problem of Distortion through Tipping Axes [Plates XVI and XVII]	81
XI	Distortion in Drawing [Plates XVIII-XXI]	87
XII	Aerial Perspective [Plates XXII-XXIX]	97
XIII	Realism and Abstraction [Plates XXX-XXXIV]	111
XIV	Further Comparisons [Plates XXXV-XXXIX]	119
XV	Conclusion	131
	Biographical Note	135
	Index	139