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Letters on Cézanne

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke; Edited by Clara Rilke; Translated by Joel Agee

Letters on Cézanne

Letters on Cézanne

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Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art

For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.

Virtually every...

Page Count
112
On Sale
09/15/2002

Book Details

Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art

For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.

Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life.

Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his New Poems. But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters -- passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Letters on Cezanne is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.

Imprint Publisher

North Point Press

ISBN

9780865476394

In The News

“The greatness of Cezanne could be conveyed only by an artist equally great.” —Howard Moss, The New Yorker

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Letters on Cézanne

Letters on Cézanne

$17.00