Richard Schiff
Cézanne and the End of Impressionism: A Study of the Theory, Technique and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art.
The University of Chicago Press, 1986. Second printing. 0226753069 xviii/318 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", displays light shelfwear, with mild foxing to fore and bottom edge of text block. Cornell Campus bookstore price sticker is affixed to lower inside corner of front cover. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. Textual illustrations.
"Drawing on a broad foundation in the history of nineteenth-century French art, Richard Shiff offers an innovative interpretation of Cézanne's painting. He shows how Cézanne's style met the emerging criteria of a "technique of originality" and how it satisfied critics sympathetic to symbolism as well as to impressionism. Expanding his study of the interaction of Cézanne and his critics, Shiff considers the problem of modern art in general. He locates the core of modernism in a dialectic of making (technique) and finding (originality). Ultimately, Shiff provides not only clarifying accounts of impressionism and symbolism but of a modern classicism as well."