At The New York Times, Jason Farago offers a close reading of Juan Gris’s Still Life: The Table.
[If I were teaching William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All, this Times feature would be doing some of the work for me.]
Friday, January 29, 2021
A Gris collage
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This is a great collaged essay. "So how many books are on the table, one or two? Something of a trick question. The right answer might be zero — because the “book,” the “table” and all the rest are not observed objects at all."
But also an echo of Wallace Stevens' "A Study of Two Pears":
The shadows of the pears
Are blobs on the green cloth.
The pears are not seen
As the observer wills.
I used to have a lot of fun with that poem. Not viols!
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