Michael Doran has gathered texts by contemporaries of Paul C矇zanne (1839-1906)--including artists, critics, and writers--that illuminate the influential painter's philosophy of art especially
in his late years. The book includes historically important essays by a dozen different authors, including Emile Bernard, Joaquim Gasquet, Maurice Denis, and Ambroise Vollard, along with
selections from C矇zanne's own letters.
In addition to the material included in the original French edition of the book, which has also been published in German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese, this edition contains an introduction
written especially for it by noted C矇zanne scholar Richard Shiff. The book closes with Lawrence Gowing's magisterial essay, "The Logic of Organized Sensations," first published in 1977 and long
out of print.
C矇zanne's work, and the thinking that lay behind it, have been of inestimable importance to the artists who followed him. This gathering of writings will be of enormous interest to artists,
writers, art historians--indeed to all students of modern art.
