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The Absent Patient: A Meditation on a Chardin Painting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2000

FRANCIS KANE
Affiliation:
Francis Kane, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Salisbury State University, Salisbury, Maryland

Abstract

“Monsieur Chardin is obliged to keep his subject before his eyes.” That remark, by a long forgotten critic, was meant as a rebuke for the painter who did not work from sketches. Jean Simeon Chardin's counter, “We have to teach our eyes to look.”

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: TERRA INCOGNITA: UNCHARTED TERRAIN BETWEEN DOCTORS AND PATIENTS
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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