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

Erle Loran, Paul Cézanne

University of California Press, 2006 - Art - 143 pages

This book had its provenance in the late 1920s, when Erle Loran, then a young artist who wanted to fathom the mysteries of C zanne's structural form, took up residence in the master's studio in Aix-en-Provence. For several years he lived there and painted, and when he came across familiar motifs in the countryside, he took snapshots of the setting. These photographs assisted Loran in his analysis of C zanne's composition and served as the basis for this book, which analyzes over 30 of C zanne's paintings. This new edition brings Loran's milestone study up-to-date with a new foreword by art historian Richard Shiff, who places Loran's work into today's art historical context.

Contents

• Paintings Analyzed: xi
• Preface to the Third Edition: xxi
• Introduction i: xxi
• Cezanne as Theorist and Artist: xxi
• An Illustrated Glossary 17: xxi
• How Cezanne Organized a Picture 25: xxi
• Introductory Analysis of a Still Life 39: xxi
• Problems of Perspective 45: xxi
• PAINTINGS ANALYZED: xxi
• LEstaque 106: xxi
• The Problem of Scale and the Control of Volume and Space 59: xxi
• The Maison Maria in the Forest of the Chateau Noir 82: xxi
• Distortion in Drawing 87: xxi
• Bathers Resting 94: xxi
• Aerial Perspective 97: xxi
• Provencal Mas near Gardanne 108: xxix
• Realism and Abstraction: xxix
• Lc Pont des Trois Sautets 112: xxx
• The Quarry at Bibemus 114: xxxii
• In the Forest of the Chateau Xoir 116: xxxiii
• Rocks in the Forest of the Chateau Noir 118: xxxiv
• XTV Further Comparisons 119: xxxiv
• The Mill near the Pont des Trois Sautets 121: xxxv
• View of Gardanne 122: xxxvi
• The Sainte Victoire from Bcllevue 124: xxxvii
• Landscape 128: xxxix
• Conclusion 131: xli

About the author

Besides being an artist of considerable reputation, Erle Loran was Professor of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Richard Shiff holds the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and directs the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas, Austin. His books include Cézanne and the End of Impressionism (1984).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Cézanne's Composition: Analysis of His Form with Diagrams and Photographs of His Motifs
• Authors: Erle Loran, Paul Cézanne
• Contributor: Richard Shiff
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of California Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0520248457, 9780520248458
• Length: 143 pages
• Subjects: Art / Criticism & Theory; Art / European