Joel Meyerowitz: Cézanne's Objects - Hardcover
Synopsis
Meyerowitz brilliantly demonstrates how Cézanne’s studio and its contents enhanced the flatness of his paintings
Some years ago, while working on a book commission about Provence, Joel Meyerowitz visited Cézanne’s studio in Aix-en-Provence. While there, he experienced a flash of understanding about Cézanne’s art. Cézanne had painted the studio walls a dark gray, mixing the color himself. Consequently, every object in the studio seemed to be absorbed into the gray of the background. There were no telltale reflections around the edges of the objects, so there was nothing that could separate them from the background itself. Meyerowitz suddenly saw how Cézanne, making his small, patch-like brush marks, moved from the object to the background, and back again to the objects, without the illusion of perspective. After all, Cézanne was the original voice of “flatness.”
Meyerowitz decided to take each of the objects in Cézanne’s studio and view them against the gray wall (managing to obtain permission from the Director of the Atelier―no-one had touched these objects in ages). His impulse was to place each one in the exact same spot on his marble-topped table and just make a “dumb” record of it. He then decided to arrange them in rows, almost as if they were back on his shelf above the table, and made a grid of five rows with five objects on each row, with Cézanne’s hat as the centerpiece.
This beautifully designed volume presents these photographs, which are at once marvelous photographic still lifes and an incredible revelation of Cézanne’s methods.
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Here, simplicity reigns. (Cole Teju The New York Times)
Training a lens on Cézanne’s bottles, pitchers, and bowls is a fitting homage... (Andrea K. Scott The New Yorker)
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- PublisherDamiani
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 8862085648
- ISBN 13 9788862085649
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages116
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Cezanne's Objects
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Damiani Editore, Bologna, Italy, 2017
ISBN 10: 8862085648
ISBN 13: 9788862085649
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Seller: Marc Sena Carrel, Pacifica, CA, U.S.A.
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. Meyerowitz, Joel (illustrator). 1st Edition. Stated first edition. Printed in May 2017 by Grafiche Damiani. 12.75 x 10.25 inches. Bound in medium gray cloth, with black-stamped lettering to the spine. Color paper label to the front board. Unbumped spine head and tail, and with fairly sharp corners. Faint 2 cm. stain to the cloth near the bottom edge of the front board, else a very clean exterior. Text block firmly bound in. Color illustrated pastedowns/FEPs. A magnification of Cezanne's painting of a floral wallpaper? Note that the front FEP, near the bottom, suggests a few small spots of minor surface loss from scotch tape. With 111 numbered pages, all heavy coated stock. With an essay by the photographer's wife, Maggie Barrett, and an afterword by the photographer. With numerous crisp color and B&W plates, many of which are full page. Also with some double-page photo spreads. An impressively clean interior. No dust jacket, as issued [?]. Very gently read. A Very Good Plus copy. 2 lbs. 8 oz. Joel Meyerowitz [b. 1938] is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art. In the early 1970s he taught photography at the Cooper Union in New York City. His work is in the collections of the International Center of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, and New York Public Library, all in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Seller Inventory # 008316
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Cézanne's Objects
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ISBN 10: 8862085648
ISBN 13: 9788862085649
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Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: very good+ to fine condition. First edition. Small Folio. 111p. Original gray cloth with color-illustrated plate laid to cover, black lettering on spine. Color-illustrated endpapers. Beautifully illustrated with Meyerowitz full page color photographs throughout. Introductory text by Maggie Barrett. Beautiful collection of color photographs inspired by Meyerowitz's visit of Cézanne's studio in Aix-en-Provence. Contains a thumbnail catalog of photographs included at rear, with Meyerowitz biography and list of solo exhibitions. Light bump at upper foredge corner of front cover. Else in fine condition. "After studying art, art history, and medical illustration at Ohio State University he worked as an art director in advertising in the early 60's. In 1962, Robert Frank made photographs for a booklet Joel designed, and it was while watching Frank work that he discovered that photographs could be made while both the photographer and the subject were in motion! The power of this observation made him quit his job immediately; borrow a camera, and go out onto the streets of New York to see what the world looked." (Biography). Seller Inventory # 54511
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Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. May be bound upside down. HARDCOVER Acceptable - This is a significantly damaged book. It should be considered a reading copy only. Please order this book only if you are interested in the content and not the condition. May be ex-library. Oversized. Seller Inventory # M8862085648Z4
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