During the last half of the nineteenth century, a remarkable number of European artists were influenced by Japanese art and culture, a trend which has been labelled "Japonisme." Among the major Post-Impressionist artists, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) alone has been viewed as untouched by this influence, largely because of the strong three-dimensional quality of his art. This study provides a reassessment of the issue of Cezanne and "Japonisme" by concentrating on the flat, two-dimensional aspect of his art. The development of Cezanne's conceptualized and schematized treatment of the Mont Sainte-Victoire theme is considered both formally and iconographically in relation to the image of Mt. Fuji by the influential Japanese printmaker, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Illustrating that Cezanne's path toward Modernism in painting may have been influenced by the Japanese print, and particularly the art of Hokusai, this study leads to a more profound understanding of Cezanne's development and the ideographic language of his images of Mont Sainte-Victoire.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.26072 |
| Date | January 1993 |
| Creators | Matsumoto, Kaoru |
| Contributors | Kiefer, Carol Solomon (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of Art History.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001390666, proquestno: MM91697, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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