Letters on Cezanne

(Artist) Paul Cezanne, Rainer Maria Rilke, (Translator) Joel Agee

ISBN 10: 086547639X / ISBN 13: 9780865476394

Editore: North Point Press, 2002

Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view an exhibition of works by Paul Cezanne. Nearly as frequently, he wrote rich and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his awe before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life. Rilke was knowledgeable about art, having published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his New Poems. But Cezanneâ s impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilkeâ s sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters â " passages from them appear verbatim in Rilkeâ s great modernist novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Letters on Cezanne is a collection of meaning fully private responses to a radically new art. 84p. Codice articolo 3338095

Riassunto:

Le risposte di preghiera di Rilke alle suppliche dell'arte del maestro francese Per molto tempo niente, e poi all'improvviso si hanno gli occhi giusti. Praticamente ogni giorno nell'autunno del 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke tornava in una galleria di Parigi per vedere una mostra di Cézanne. Quasi con la stessa frequenza, scriveva lettere dense e gioiose alla moglie, Clara Westhoff, esprimendo il suo sgomento di fronte ai dipinti e le sue conseguenti rivelazioni sull'arte e sulla vita. Rilke era un esperto d'arte e aveva persino pubblicato monografie, tra cui un famoso studio su Rodin che ispirò le sue Nuove poesie. Ma l'impatto di Cézanne su di lui non poteva essere trasmesso in un saggio tradizionale. Il senso di parentela di Rilke con Cézanne fornisce una potente e lungimirante corrente sotterranea in queste lettere: alcuni passaggi di esse appaiono letteralmente nel grande romanzo modernista di Rilke, I quaderni di Malte Laurids Brigge. Lettere su Cezanne è una raccolta di risposte significativamente private a un'arte radicalmente nuova.

Informazioni sugli autori:

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.

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.

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Titolo: Letters on Cezanne
Casa editrice: North Point Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: New
Edizione: seconda edizione