Cezanne¿s Shadows - Poussin, Chardin, Rubens

Modernism has often been described as a rejection of the art of the past, but C-nne-s Shadows makes an eloquent case for precisely the opposite artistic practice. In this book, Nancy Locke argues that the idea of a modernist forgetting would never have taken hold if the modernist painters themselves, and C-nne in particular, had not wrestled so fiercely with the work of their predecessors. C-nne routinely interrupted his work with a model to go back to the Louvre or to consult sketches and studies he did after the old masters. Exploring the importance of C-nne-s involvement with the art of the past in essays devoted to Poussin, Chardin, and Rubens, Locke argues that C-nne-s art cannot be understood without an investigation into what he made of these earlier models and how they continued to haunt even his mature work. C-nne-s Shadows offers an elegant new model for understanding the relationship between modernist painting and the creative tradition it often feigns to reject. This study