Quaderni di Venezia Arti

Series | Quaderni di Venezia Arti
Edited book | In my End is my Beginning
Chapter | Facing Bonnard’s Le Boxeur

Facing Bonnard’s Le Boxeur

Abstract

Pierre Bonnard’s Le Boxeur (1931) is usually considered as an intimist allegory of the painter’s fight against his medium. Challenging this perspective, in this article I will explore the representational strategies and scopic regimes that the painting mobilizes, as well as the connections it establishes with Bonnard’s public works, his (other) self-portraits, and some of Vuillard’s. As I will attempt to demonstrate, drawing on texts by Fried, Stoichita, Merleau-Ponty and Lacan, this painting serves a site of ‘figural incandescence’ where the schizoid and irreconcilable forces that drive the artist’s entire artistic enterprise come into the open, colliding upon the artist’s body.


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Published Dec. 11, 2024 | Language: en

Keywords Bonnard • Self-portrait • Décoration • Le Boxeur • Embodied reflexivity

Copyright © 2024 Mario De Angelis. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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