Manet

What Dominique Pagani says

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 linkages1. He returns several times to this friendship and to the fact that Manet is Baudelaire's contemporary2. In a session on Debussy, he makes clear that he means Manet, Baudelaire's friend, and not Monet3. The only work he describes is the Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé. He dwells on the reclining poet and the smoke from his cigar4. A few weeks later, he returns to it to point out that this smoke draws the painting's diagonal5. 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. 1Leibniz1 Aug 2017 · 1:21:21
2. 2Et le sujet dans tout ça ? Hölderlin, Mallarmé et Baudelaire28 Sept 2022 · 1:09:02
3. 3Debussy27 Mar 2020 · 39:03
4. 4Et le sujet dans tout ça ? Hölderlin, Mallarmé et Baudelaire28 Sept 2022 · 55:44
5. 5Clouscard et le problème de Socrate14 Oct 2022 · 46:36

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.