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• Alberto Giacometti

  Swiss sculptor and painter (1901–1966). In "Eye and Mind", Giacometti provides two key formulations for MP's argument:

• André Breton

  French poet and essayist (1896–1966), founder of Surrealism. In the wiki's context, the source of the "sublime point" concept that Merleau-Ponty adopts as a structural figure for the coincidence of antinomies — the point where "life and de…

• Auguste Rodin

  French sculptor (1840–1917). In "Eye and Mind" §4, Rodin is MP's primary interlocutor on the problem of movement in painting and sculpture. Rodin's theory of the "paradoxical arrangement" — depicting the body in an attitude it never at any…

• Claude Simon

  French novelist (1913–2005), Nobel Prize in Literature 1985. In the wiki's context, the literary source of Merleau-Ponty's expression "flesh of the world" — MP explicitly cites Simon's Le Vent (1957), p. 98 in the 1961 course "Cartesian On…

• Henri Matisse

  French painter (1869–1954). In "Eye and Mind" §4, Matisse is MP's exemplar for the line as structural filament rather than contour. "Matisse's women were not immediately women; they became women" — the line does not copy a pre-existing for…

• Paul Cézanne

  French post-Impressionist painter (1839–1906). For Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne is the paradigm case of phenomenology as attention and wonder, and the artist through whom MP articulates his thesis that painting is "philosophy in action." From Ph…

• Paul Klee

  Swiss-German painter (1879-1940). In Merleau-Ponty's Course Notes, Klee is the primary exemplar of fundamental-thought-in-art — the implicit ontological inquiry that painting conducts. Merleau-Ponty's commentary on Klee "seems to have push…

• René Magritte

  Belgian surrealist painter (1898–1967). His paintings — especially Le faux miroir (1928), La condition humaine (1933), Le Jockey perdu (1948), Golconde (1953), Le Blanc-seing (1965), L'idée (1966), Le pèlerin (1966), Paysage de Baucis (196…