C's Aesthetics Philosophy in the Painting

This new publication is authored by noted critic Joseph Masheck and explores the development of modernism and aesthetics through the work of postimpressionist Paul Cezanne. Masheck's innovative experiment in art criticism has been undertaken in the analytical tradition of twentieth-century philosophical thought. Published with the Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College. "In that abstract painting was made possible by a cubism whose patron saint was the postimpressionist Cezanne, what follows is a search for the implicit philosophical aesthetics of the single most crucial artist for the development of modernism. [...] But I also write as a teacher who sees a generation afoot that has learned to deal with postmodernism before understanding modernism (if at all)--which might be something like the American way of starting the dinner with the salad, if one ever got some meat. So I am perhaps also doing something constructively remedial about that, attempting to think, on its own terms but perhaps ?forward? again, through the work of a mythic ?founder? whose work opened so much future." --From the preface to C's ?sthetics by Joseph Masheck