Manet

Summary

Dominique Pagani refers to Manet briefly and always in passing, mainly for his ties with the poets. He first presents him as Baudelaire's great friend. In a session devoted to Leibniz, he mentions him in that role in connection with a logic of linkages. He returns several times to this friendship and to the fact that Manet is Baudelaire's contemporary1. In a session on Debussy, he makes clear that he means Manet, Baudelaire's friend, and not Monet. The only work he describes is the Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé. He dwells on the reclining poet and the smoke from his cigar2. A few weeks later, he returns to it to point out that this smoke draws the painting's diagonal3. He therefore cites Manet within reflections on Baudelaire, Mallarmé and the question of the subject. He makes him a figure of passage between the painting and the poetry of his time, without developing an analysis of his work in its own right.

1. 1And what about the subject in all this? Hölderlin, Mallarmé and Baudelaire28 Sept 2022 · 1:09:02
2. 2And what about the subject in all this? Hölderlin, Mallarmé and Baudelaire28 Sept 2022 · 55:44
3. 3Clouscard and the problem of Socrates14 Oct 2022 · 46:36

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