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Title: Since Cezanne

Author: Clive Bell

Release Date: September 7, 2004 [EBook #13395]

Language: English

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[Illustration: (_Photo: E. Druet_) CEZANNE]

SINCE CEZANNE

BY

CLIVE BELL

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Most of these Essays appeared in THE NEW REPUBLIC and THE ATHENAEUM:
some, however, are reprinted from THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE, THE NEW
STATESMAN, and ART AND DECORATION. I take this opportunity of thanking
the editors of all.

C.B.

CONTENTS

I. Since Cezanne
II. The Artistic Problem
III. The Douanier Rousseau
IV. Cezanne
V. Renoir
VI. Tradition and Movements
VII. Matisse and Picasso
VIII. The Place of Art in Art Criticism
IX. Bonnard
X. Duncan Grant
XI. Negro Sculpture
XII. Order and Authority (1 and 2)
XIII. Marquet
XIV. Standards
XV. Criticism:
1. First thoughts
2. Second thoughts
3. Last thoughts
XVI. Othon Friesz
XVII. Wilcoxism
XVIII. Art and Politics

XIX. The Authority of M. Derain
XX. "Plus de Jazz"

ILLUSTRATIONS

_CEZANNE_
_SEURAT_
_MATISSE_
_PICASSO_
_BONNARD_
_DUNCAN GRANT_
_OTHON FRIESZ_
_DERAIN_

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SINCE CEZANNE

With anyone who concludes that this preliminary essay is merely to
justify the rather appetizing title of my book I shall be at no pains to
quarrel. If privately I think it does more, publicly I shall not avow
it. Historically and critically, I admit, the thing is as slight as a
sketch contained in five-and-thirty pages must be, and certainly it adds
nothing to what I have said, in the essays to which it stands preface,
on aesthetic theory. The function it is meant to perform--no very
considerable one perhaps--is to justify not so much the title as the
shape of my book, giving, in the process, a rough sketch of the period
with certain aspects of which I am to deal. That the shape needs
justification is attributable to the fact