Letters on Cézanne / Rainer Maria Rilke ; edited by Clara Rilke ; translated by Joel Agee.

Letters on Cézanne / Rainer Maria Rilke ; edited by Clara Rilke ; translated by Joel Agee.

Briefe über Cézanne. English

086547639X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780865476394 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

New York : North Point Press, 2002.

©2002

English

xxiv, 84 pages ; 21 cm

PT2635.I65 Z4813 2002

(OCoLC)48649197

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 meaningful private responses to a radically new art.

Includes bibliographical references.

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