Faculty Mentor
Deborah Cibelli
Location
Farrar Hall, Room 132
Session
Session 4
Start Date
20-4-2012 1:15 PM
End Date
20-4-2012 2:15 PM
Description
Given that painting and poetry are sister disciplines concerned with communication through the power of images and their symbolic meanings, I will argue the uncanny relevance of Mallarmé’s Hérodiade and The Afternoon of a Faun to Manet’s A Bar at the Folies Bergère. Manet, in the words of Mallarmé, “paints, not the object, but the effect” using forms that can be found in these poems which encompass Mallarme’s most cherished ideations: Dream, Beauty, and Ideal. Haunting allusions to these themes subtly permeate the splendid, recondite imagery Manet developed for his last Salon entry and still resonate today.
Reflections of Mallarmé: A Comparative Study of Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Farrar Hall, Room 132
Given that painting and poetry are sister disciplines concerned with communication through the power of images and their symbolic meanings, I will argue the uncanny relevance of Mallarmé’s Hérodiade and The Afternoon of a Faun to Manet’s A Bar at the Folies Bergère. Manet, in the words of Mallarmé, “paints, not the object, but the effect” using forms that can be found in these poems which encompass Mallarme’s most cherished ideations: Dream, Beauty, and Ideal. Haunting allusions to these themes subtly permeate the splendid, recondite imagery Manet developed for his last Salon entry and still resonate today.