Architecture in Modern Painting. A Study in Absorption and Reinterpretation
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Date
1939-03
Authors
Martienssen, Rex D
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Publisher
Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors
Abstract
'Cezanne taught the architect the laws which had been forgotton. He showed that surface was significant in its definition of volume, and that the mutilated and perforated "walls" which had come to be accepted by architects could enclose in only an incidental and imperfect manner.'
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Martienssen, Rex D, Cezanne, Cubism, Fernand Leger
Citation
SA Architectural Record vol 24 no 3 March 1939 pg 76-91