... point a recent biography of Cézanne by Alex Danchev and the same author's recent edition of the artist's letters. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Paul Cézanne postimpressionism impressionism French painting Alex Danchev Cézanne: Figuring Truth in Painting...

... gaining it” (FI, 159). 136 boundary 2 / November 2016 functioning as force fields (something in the manner of Paul Cézanne’s realization of “vibrating sensations,” though with a very different look). In Man with a Pipe, a profusion of ordinary things emerges from the interplay of weight and...

... not copied. If one looks at the canvases in which, in 1796, Hubert Robert is painting the Louvre—which had become a national museum accessible to all just three years before—one can see that the visitors, who are most defi- nitely almost all artists, mostly reproduce paintings there. Paul...

... not look at the canvases with hands in pockets but who instead draw and sometimes paint. To the Louvre will come Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and all the artists for whom the museum is primarily a workplace. But the Louvre is also the site of a public of amateurs who reproduce, re-produce,­ and...

... artistic transcendence carry with them an “oscillation in the status of the image,” Paul de Man once noted.14 The inconstancy of what Erich Auerbach called figura—strategic and evolutionary cultural changes in the significance of whatever counts as primary in artistic utterance and notation—is...

... as bodies that mani- fest what Merleau-Ponty­ calls, after Paul Valéry, the chiasm. In its anatomic usage, chiasm refers to the x-­like crossing of the optic nerves at the back of the brain. But Valéry’s adaptation transmutes the crossing of nerves into a crossing of glances, emphasizing a...

... pecu- liar kind of hero with no interior life. Paul Claudel once argued that Baude- y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 43 of 224 laire’s true subject was remorse, that being ‘‘the only inner experience left to people of the nineteenth century...