Berkeley: U of California P 2001 22...

Berkeley: U of California P 2001 224 pp 71 color illus., 110 b/w ISBN 0-520-23291-7 $5000

Steven Platzman's lavishly illustrated cogitation of Cezanne's self-portraits, based onward his doctoral dissertation, is a welcome addition to the Cezanne literature. As Platzman expresss although the self-portraits have often been reproduced, their apparent simplicity has watched to foreclose critical discussion (14) by means of their very nature, self-portraits raise tangled issues of interpretation. Why did the artist take the part of himself? What role, if any, does iconography play? To what