Showcasing a selection of iconic works and highlighting the artist's key themes, this unmissable paperback exhibition book is a celebration of Cezanne and his pivotal role in the development of modern art.

'I will astonish Paris with an apple!', Cezanne once claimed. Leaving his native Aix-en-Provence for the French capital in his twenties, he did just that. Cezanne's still lifes, landscapes and paintings of bathers were to encourage generations of artists to break the rule book. The history of painting was never to be the same again.

Evoking the sensory richness and ambitions of the beloved French painter's work, this catalogue presents a multifaceted exploration of Cezanne's art, career and legacy, through the varied perspectives of art historians, conservation scientists and a host of renowned contemporary artists. Rather than looking at Cezanne in hindsight, it seeks to understand the artist in his own context: as an ambitious young painter from the provinces eager to make it in metropolitan Paris. Torn between seeking official recognition and joining rebellious impressionism before relentlessly pursuing his own unique artistic language, Cezanne strived to be modern while remaining deeply sceptical about the world he lived in.

本书展示了塞尚（Cezanne）的一些标志性作品，强调了艺术家的关键主题，赞颂了塞尚及其在现代艺术发展中的关键作用。

塞尚曾声称：“我要用一颗苹果震惊整个巴黎！”。二十几岁时，他离开家乡普罗旺斯地区的艾克斯，来到法国首都，他就是这样做的。塞尚的静物画、风景画和沐浴者画，鼓励了几代艺术家打破常规。绘画的历史从此改变了。

本书唤起了这位深受喜爱的法国画家作品的丰富感官和雄心壮志，通过艺术史学家、保护科学家和众多知名当代艺术家的不同视角，对塞尚的艺术、事业和遗产进行了多方位的探索。这本书并不是从事后看塞尚，而是试图在塞尚的背景下理解这位艺术家：作为一个来自外地的雄心勃勃的年轻画家，他渴望在大都市巴黎有所作为。他在寻求官方认可和加入反叛的印象派之间徘徊，不懈地追求自己独特的艺术语言，努力成为现代人，同时对自己生活的世界保持深刻的怀疑。