A Man and His Mountain: The Life of Paul Cezanne

by Hugh McLeave

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0025836706
• ISBN13: 9780025836709
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An Easy Mountain to Climb

This book breathes life into so many famous names from the Impressionist years of the 19th century, and the places where they lived, worked and squabbled together. Where more conventional biographies seem somehow dry and dusty, the novel-style of this book seems strangely more real! An excellent read, but do have a good book illustrated with Cezanne's paintings to back it up, and preferably the Impressionists as well. Not that the information is inaccurate: it is simply frustrating to be unable to see some of the references. But then, that is the joy of this book: it throws Cezanne and his contemporaries together again into a living landscape, and makes the reader want to meet them and visit these places. Sadly out of print, this should be republished, perhaps with an illustrated version.