MARY TOMPKINS LEWIS

Cézanne A lively account of the highly influential artist's life and work.Paul Cézanne's (1839-1906) distinctive paintings of landscapes, figures, nudes and still lifes profoundly influenced the Cubists and 20th-century art The first study to bring biographical, formal and larger contextual approaches to bear on his whole career Author argues that his legacy can be fully understood only in the context of the social and historical circumstances of France in conjunction with the regional tensions of his native Provence Mary Tompkins Lewis teaches Art History at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Her publications include Cézanne's Early Imagery.