{"product_id":"letters-on-czanne-9780865476394","title":"Letters on Cézanne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his \u003ci\u003eNew Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters -- passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eLetters on Cezanne\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e North Point Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780865476394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2002 pg. 176\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rainer Maria Rilke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37878230089909,"sku":"9780865476394","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_59948f58-de01-4e65-bc59-4f6a36cdee33.jpg?v=1607571847","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/letters-on-czanne-9780865476394","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}