The pulsations of the present day—its politics, crises, and fashions—ring somewhere beyond the ambit of art historian T. J. Clark’s latest book, “If Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present.” Instead, Clark suggests that Cézanne’s present tense resides in the moment of looking itself. Such concentrated focus could be said to honor what the artist did and wanted, writes Joseph Henry in his review, but this tact also risks privatizing interpretation, hemming the work in to the lines and shapes of individual perception. “What drives Clark’s ‘If Apples Should Fall,’” writes Henry, “is less the task of scholarly exposition than the swelling momentum of interpretation itself.”
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 Image: Paul Cézanne, The House and Tree, 1874–75, oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 21 1/4".