Claudel: Beauty and GraceExploring Paul Claudel's relationship to the creative geniuses Gide, Merleau-Ponty, Proust, Redon, Sartre, Van Gogh, and Weil, this work clearly demonstrates Claudel's centrality to aesthetic philosophy in France and the profound connection in his work between aesthetics and religious faith. |
Contents
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Claudel and MerleauPonty on Perception | 42 |
Claudel and Weil on Grace | 59 |
Claudel and Sartre The Grace of Creation and the Beauty of Nothingness | 79 |
Claudel and Gide Beauty and Grace in Baroque Art | 97 |
Claudel and Redon The Image of Beauty and Grace | 119 |
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Common terms and phrases
abyss According to Claudel aesthetic André Gide artist baroque art beauty and grace becomes body c'est chose Christ Church colors consciousness contemplation created forms creation creative d'une darkness death delight Descartes Dieu divine drama dream Elstir eternal être Eucharist everything existence expression eyes fait feel Flemish art God's form Gogh harmony hidden form human person incarnate inner invisible Jean-Paul Sartre knowledge La nausée light liturgical drama luminosity manifestation Marcel Proust means melody Merleau-Ponty Mesa and Ysé monde movement mystery mysticism n'est nature Nicolas Poussin nothingness objective Odilon Redon paintings Paris Paul Claudel perceived perception phenomenal forms phenomenal world Pieter de Hooch Poussin Poussin's art pure qu'il reality Redon reveals rhythm Roquentin Sartre sensation senses sentiment seul Simone Weil sonorous soul spiritual symbol temps things thought tion tout transcendent transformation vibrations Vincent van Gogh visible vision void word
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