Friday, January 29, 2021

A Gris collage

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.]

comments: 2

Geo-B said...

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.

Michael Leddy said...

I used to have a lot of fun with that poem. Not viols!