The real or the Real? Chardin or Rothko?

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 32:47-58 (1992)
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I will begin by considering some themes from Proust's wonderful essay on Chardin, Chardin and Rembrandt. Proust speaks of the young man ‘of modest means and artistic taste’, his imagination filled with the splendour of museums, of cathedrals, of mountains, of the sea, sitting at table at the end of lunch, nauseated at the ‘traditional mundanity’ of the unaesthetic spectacle before him: the last knife left lying on the half turned-back table cloth, next to the remains of an underdone and tasteless cutlet. He cannot wait to get up and leave, and if he cannot take a train to Holland or Italy, he will at least go to the Louvre to have sight of the palaces of Veronese, the princes of van Dyck and the harbours of Claude. Doing this will, of course, make his return to his home and its familiar surroundings seem yet more drab and exasperating.

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reprint O'Hear, Anthony (2023) "The real or the Real? Chardin or Rothko?". In McGhee, Michael, Spiritual life, pp. : Cambridge University Press (2023)

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Anthony O'hear
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