Description: "Explores the importance of Câezanne's engagement with the art of the past, including the works of Poussin, Chardin, and Rubens, and argues that the influence of these earlier models is essential to understanding Câezanne's art"--
Brief description: Nancy Locke is Professor of Art History at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Manet and the Family Romance.
Review Quotes:
"Cézanne's Shadows offers 'slow looking' at its very best--a form of interpretation that unpacks the material immediacy and compositional intelligence of Cézanne's art to its fullest. Locke's delicate prose shines throughout with her many nuanced and novel observations about this key modernist painter's artistic pantheon. A major achievement and an unforgettable read."
--André Dombrowski, author of Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life