Cézanne's Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint

by Aruna d'Souza

C zanne's Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint discusses an epochal shift in the representation of sexuality in modern art with the images of nudes made by Paul C zanne. C zanne was the first painter of the twentieth century who, through careful study of avant-garde precedents including Manet and Courbet, would transform the material qualities of his art into an erotics of paint--that is to say, an eroticization of medium, of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271032146
• ISBN13: 9780271032146
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.6" x 9.6"