Cézanne and The Eternal Feminine (Contemporary Artists and their Critics)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 3/24/2005
EAN 9780521837262, ISBN10: 052183726X
Hardcover, 266 pages, 25.4 x 17.8 x 1.6 cm
Language: English
Cézanne's painting The Eternal Feminine, painted in 1878, has been given considerable attention in the literature on this artist, though it has generally embarrassed scholars because it suggests aspects of the artist's personality that many connoisseurs in the past would rather have repressed. The painting has been known by a variety of titles and, as Wayne Andersen has discovered, has also been altered. He traced these alterations to an art dealer who made them in an effort to render the painting more marketable. This volume is the first to interrogate the original state of The Eternal Feminine and to resolve its mysterious importance to Cézanne and, more broadly, the history of art. Devoting a separate chapter to each of the titles by which the picture has been known, Andersen resolves its hidden meaning while providing a fresh look at Cézanne's artistic process.
1. The eternal feminine
2. The miracle of her restored vision
3. Les Spectacles des Fêtes Foraines
4. Ambroise Vollard's show window
5. Leda and the Swan
6. The clothed and the naked
7. The Death of Sardanapalus
8. The whore of Babylon
9. Venus, venal, venality
10. The sacrifice of the eose
11. Hero and Leander
12. The apotheosis of Delacroix
13. The vicissitudes of love
14. Wives in crisis
15. Why not put the eyes at the crotch
16. From whose point of view
17. The sand-man.