Finally, this book is dedicated to certain rooms in the museums of Paris, as they were before the opening of the Pompidou Centre and the Musee d'Orsay: to the overcrowded splendour of the old Jeu de Paume, where Cezanne first taught me to see; and to the vast gloomy base- ments of the old Musee d'Art Moderne, where I applied that lesson, and saw Georges Braque. [...] That is, the frame is always permeable: it does not allow for any absolute distinction between the visual and the non- visual; the 'inside' of the image (so-called visual 'purity') is always The Supplement of Language 7 already contaminated by the 'outside/ language. [...] The image of the apple displays the apple as 'complete in itself,' a thing; yet it also shows that the apple is not an image, that is, that the apple in its thingness neverthe- less lacks something - it lacks 'imageness/ The lack is reciprocal; so the structure of the lack is, as always, the structure of the supplement. [...] But for the most part, I prefer the metaphors of 'the supplement' and 'the frame' to the metaphors of 'imperialism' or 'appropriation/ For all that I have insisted on the necessity of painting's existence in a linguis- tic (social) space, I have also insisted on the counter-movement of the supplementarity: on the ways in which the visual resists language, the ways in which it preserves a stubborn [...] In a kind of synecdoche, the part is made to stand for the whole, the one isolated moment for the complete length of the story.
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- CONTENTS 8
- PREFACE 10
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 14
- CHAPTER ONE: The Supplement of Language 18
- CHAPTER TWO: 'We Are a Man': The Narrativization of Painting 37
- CHAPTER THREE: Apollinaire and the Naming of Cubism 50
- CHAPTER FOUR: The Gospel According to Kahnweiler 72
- CHAPTER FIVE: The Semiotics of Cubism 94
- CHAPTER SIX: Metaphor and Metonymy in Cubism and Gertrude Stein 119
- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Window Frame: Delaunay and Apollinaire 139
- ENTR'ACTE: Signs of the Times 160
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Gadji Beri Bimba: Abstraction in Poetry 168
- CHAPTER NINE: Models of Order: Ian Hamilton Finlay 184
- NOTES 210
- WORKS CITED 234
- INDEX 244
- A 244
- B 244
- C 245
- D 245
- E 246
- F 246
- G 246
- H 247
- I 247
- J 247
- K 247
- L 247
- M 247
- N 248
- O 248
- P 248
- R 249
- S 249
- T 250
- V 250
- W 250
- Z 250