Interpreting Cezanne Hardcover - 1988

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Paul Cezanne. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in number line present. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, little discernible wear beyond faint foxing along fore-edge, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected, not price-clipped but with a scratch at front panel near spine. ix, [2], 296 pp., with 226 illustrations. From the publisher's blurb, "In this remarkable book the sculptor and writer Sidney Geist presents a revolutionary interpretation of the art of Cezanne. Geist argues that Cezanne's paintings are fertile with reflections of the artist's private world and passionate concerns. Looking at more than two hundred works, all reproduced in the book, he identifies the symbolism that gives form to a hidden significance in the paintings-concealed allusions to Cezanne himself and to his relations with his wife and mother, his father, his son, and his friend Zola, as well as a circle of colleagues including Pissarro, Frederic Bazille, and Ambroise Vollard. It is a complex pattern of symbols expressed in both secondary visual images and in verbal connections, including rebuses and puns.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.