Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Modernism’s Two Cézannes

1. A Biography of Failure

2. Cézanne’s Bathers and the Erotics of Paint

3. Baigneurs/Baigneuses: Making a Difference

4. Matisse’s Doubt/Doubting Matisse

Notes

Index

About the Author

Aruna D'Souza is Assistant Professor of Art History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. She is the editor of Self and History: A Tribute to Linda Nochlin (2000) and The Invisible Flaneuse? Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris (2006).

Reviews

“An astute and original analysis of Cézanne’s key canvases, the Bathers, and through them, of the equally central issue in Cézanne scholarship, namely, the erotic dimension of his vision . . . a stimulating, truly provocative study.”—Ewa Lajer-Burcharth,Harvard University

“For the lay reader, Cézanne’s Bathers can be challenging at points, but it’s a rewarding look at how art history gets made and how a careful sifting through the available evidence leads to the revelation of new meanings.”—Ann Landi ARTnews