{"product_id":"letters-on-cezanne","title":"Letters on Cézanne","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Rainer Maria Rilke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVirtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cézanne 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\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. But Cé\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cézanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters -- passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLetters on Cézanne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e112 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOriginally Published in 1952\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5.6 x 0.33 x 8.2 inches\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 9780865476394\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLetters, Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40854462824616,"sku":"9780865476394","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Letters_on_Cezanne.jpg?v=1630005216","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/letters-on-cezanne","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}