However, I think this one surpassing good:
suggestions as to its deeper level of meaning would be welcome
Today we handed in essays for Kieran Cashell's seminar 'Mirrors of Enigma' and I believe -other than feedback on essays there may be no further lectures - that's a pity as I have found them extremely stimulating and I intend to continue to work through the book list that he gave us at the beginning. The most recent acquisition (library) has been The Painting of Modern Life by T.J. Clark which 'describes the painting of Manet, Degas, Seurat, and others as an attempt to give form to that modernity and seek out its typical representatives'. (1999).
I had only begun to read the section on 'A Bar at the Folies-Bergere' by Manet :
...and what an interesting piece of work this is with so many undercurrents flowing...
when I came across this contemporary sketch from the cartoonist Stop in Le Journal Amusant :
whose caption read:
UNE MARCHANDE DE CONSOLATION AUX FOLIES-BERGERE : Trans ; Her back is reflected in a mirror; but, no doubt, because the painter was distracted, a gentleman with whom she is chatting and whose image one sees in the glass, does not exist in the picture itself. - We thought we should repair this omission (Clark 1999, p. 241)
You just cannot get past the smart-alecks, can you?
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