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Letters on Cézanne - 2nd Edition by Rainer Maria Rilke (Paperback)
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- Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.
- About the Author: Rainer Maria Rilke (1975-1926) was born in Prague and traveled throughout Europe, returning frequently to Paris, where he wrote his finest works: the two volumes of New Poems and the great modernist novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
- 112 Pages
- Art, Individual Artists
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Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art
For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes. Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life. Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his New Poems. But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters -- passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Letters on Cezanne is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.Review Quotes
"The greatness of Cezanne could be conveyed only by an artist equally great." --Howard Moss, The New Yorker
About the Author
Rainer Maria Rilke (1975-1926) was born in Prague and traveled throughout Europe, returning frequently to Paris, where he wrote his finest works: the two volumes of New Poems and the great modernist novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. He lived the last years of his life in Switzerland, where he completed his two poetic masterworks, the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus.
Joel Agee has translated Elias Canetti, Friedrich Dürenmatt, and Gottfried Benn. He won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his work on Heinrich von Kleist's verse play Penthesilea. He is the author of Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany.Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .3 Inches (D)
Weight: .25 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 112
Genre: Art
Sub-Genre: Individual Artists
Publisher: North Point Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Street Date: September 15, 2002
TCIN: 12052037
UPC: 9780865476394
Item Number (DPCI): 248-33-7704
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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