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Cézanne’s or Balzac’s artist is not satisfied to be a cultured animal but takes up culture from its inception and founds it anew: he speaks as the first man spoke and paints as if no one had ever painted before. … The artist launches his work just as a man once launched the first word, not knowing whether it will be anything more than a shout. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “Cézanne’s Doubt”)
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “Cézanne’s Doubt,” in The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting, edited by Galen A. Johnson, translation editor Michael B. Smith (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1993, 1995), p. 69. Barnett Newman, “The First Man Was an Artist,” in Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews, ed. John P. O’Neill (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990), pp. 158, 160.
Cf. Véronique Fóti, “The Evidences of Painting: Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Abstraction,” in Merleau-Ponty: Difference, Materiality, Painting, ed. Véronique M. Fóti (New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1996), pp. 137–138.
Ibid. p. 164.
Jean-François Lyotard, “Philosophy and Painting in the Age of Their Experimentation: Contribution to an Idea of Postmodernity,” in The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader, op. cit., p. 335.
Harold Rosenberg, Barnett Newman (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers), p. 29.
Ibid., p. 37.
Ibid., p. 47.
Ibid., p. 59.
Ibid., p. 62.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence,” in The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader, op. cit., p. 93.
Lyotard, “Philosophy and Painting in the Age of Their Experimentation,” op. cit., p. 331.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Eye and Mind, in The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader, op. cit., p. 147.
Cf. Rosenberg, op. cit., pp. 244-245.
Merleau-Ponty, “Cézanne’s Doubt,” op. cit., p. 66.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence,” in The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader, Ibid. p. 68.
Jean-François Lyotard, Discours, Figure, in The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader, op. cit., p. 312.
Newman, “The First Man was an Artist,” op. cit., p. 159.
Ibid., p. 160.
Merleau-Ponty, “Cézanne’s Doubt,” op. cit., p. 67.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, edited by Claude Lefort, translated by Alphonso Lingis (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University press, 1968), p. 139 (French edition, p. 183).
Lyotard, Discours, Figure, op. cit., p. 314.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis: Preface to Hesnard’s L’Oeuvre de Freud,” translated by Alden Fisher in Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. XVIII, Nos. 1, 2, and 3 (1982-83), p.71.
Jean-François Lyotard, “Beyond Representation,” in The Lyotard Reader, ed. Andrew Benjamin (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989), p. 165.
Jean-François Lyotard, “The Sublime and the Avant-Garde,” in The Lyotard Reader, op. cit., p. 197.
Thomas B. Hess, Barnett Newman (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1971), p. 73.
Ibid. p. 73.
Merleau-Ponty, “Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence,” op. cit., pp. 105, 106.
Merleau-Ponty, Eye and Mind, op. cit., p. 149.
Fóti, “The Evidences of Painting: Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Abstraction,” op. cit., p. 166.
Lyotard, “Beyond Representation,” in The Lyotard Reader, op. cit., p. 166.
Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, op. cit., p. 257.
Ibid., p. 153 (French edition, p. 200).
Rosenberg, op. cit., p. 21.
Merleau-Ponty, “Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy (1960),” in Texts and Dialogues: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hugh Silverman and James Barry, eds. (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1991), p. 66. This item originally appeared in French as “Phénoménologie contre The Concept of Mind” in La Philosophie analytique (Paris: Minuit, 1960).
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, In Praise of Philosophy, trans. John Wild and James Edie (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1963), pp. 26–27. (French edition: Eloge de la philosophie [Paris: Gallimard, 1953], p. 33).
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Johnson, G.A. (2002). The Invisible and the Unpresentable: Barnett Newman’s Abstract Expressionism and the Aesthetics of Merleau-Ponty. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Visible and the Invisible in the Interplay between Philosophy, Literature and Reality. Analecta Husserliana, vol 75. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0485-5_11
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