Cezanne And The Dawn Of Modern Art Author:Paul Cezanne Cézanne and the Dawn of Modern Art presents selected paintings by Paul Cézanne alongside works by younger artists that reveal the powerful influence of the man hailed as the founder of modern painting. The driving forces in the reception of Cézanne's art were not art critics, art historians, or even the artist himself, but ... more »rather other artists--primarily the Fauves led by Matisse, de Vlaminck, and Derain; and the Cubists including Picasso, Braque, and Léger--all of whom absorbed and elaborated on Cézanne's revolutionary ideas about color and composition. Against this background of Cézannisme, the book presents key works by Cézanne and younger artists in revealing juxtapositions. Readers will discover analogies and variations between the works of the "father of modern art" and those of his successors in a series of related motifs--portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. This volume is, indeed, a compact history of the icons of modern art. It offers new insight into one of modern art's most complex artists, traces the influence of Cézanne's work on a succeeding generation of 20th-century artists, and examines tendencies in Cézanne's art that paved the way for both the Fauve and Cubist movements. From the moment he begins to put down a stroke, the painting is already there. -Pablo Picasso on Paul Cézanne Edited by Felix A. Baumann, Walter Feilchenfeldt, and Hubertus Gassner. Essays by Pepe Karmel, Peter Kropmanns and Fred Leemann. Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in./240 pgs / 113 color and 67 b&w.« less