Abstract
This paper examines the theme of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Le Doute de Cézanne and tries to trace his early thoughts and question consciousness. Albeit a well-known essay, Le Doute de Cézanne is generally regarded as a phenomenological casual essay, but this label does not explain the paradoxes from the perspective of detail and structure of the essay. Merleau-Ponty argued for the discard of personal character, life experience and artistic inheritance in the research of Cezanne but also points out that Cezanne's life and his works shared the same adventure. The essay has also devoted many words to the life of Da Vinci, which seems completely off the main point. This paper argues that the two parallel themes of Merleau-Ponty's essay are "expression" and "freedom" which are united by the more interior theme(s): "body" and/or the methodology of art history study.
First Page
39
Last Page
49
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Ying. 2015. "A Thematic Research of Merleau-Ponty's Le Doute de Cézanne." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (4): pp.39-49. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss4/3
