{"product_id":"letters-on-cezanne","title":"Letters on Cézanne","description":"\u003cp\u003eRilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his New Poems. But Cézanne'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, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLetters on Cézanne is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rainer Maria Rilke, Joel Agee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46847278612649,"sku":"9780865476394","price":14.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9780865476394.jpg?v=1772599521","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/letters-on-cezanne","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}