{"product_id":"letters-on-cezanne","title":"Letters on Cézanne","description":"Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art\n\nFor a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.\n\nVirtually 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.\n\nRilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his New Poems. 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, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Letters on Cezanne is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 086547639X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.086547639X.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Rilke, Rainer Maria|Agee, Joel\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41505433550906,"sku":"DBV.086547639X.A","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/086547639X-0.jpg?v=1783186593","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/letters-on-cezanne","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}