The Case for Intentionality: Matisse and Bergson in Cronan’s Against Affective Formalism [Review of the book Against Affective Formalism: Matisse, Bergson, Modernism, by Todd Cronan]
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2015
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Theory and Event
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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Menzies, M. (2015). The Case for Intentionality: Matisse and Bergson in Cronan’s Against Affective Formalism [Review of the book Against Affective Formalism: Matisse, Bergson, Modernism, by Todd Cronan]. Theory & Event, 18 (4)
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In a 1914 interview with the Parisian daily Le Journal, Henri Bergson paraphrased a contemporaneous comment by Auguste Rodin to observe that “the cinematograph taught the painter that photography was wrong.”1 Todd Cronan’s Against Affective Formalism: Matisse, Bergson, Modernism works a latency discernible in this statement to argue that the ‘affective formalist,’ apparently Bergsonian orientation of influential assessments of Henri Matisse have actually suppressed the significance of a complex interrogation of the status of representation for the work of the painter and the philosopher. Pushing against the grain of a long affective turn that has understood Matisse as the exemplar of a physiologically-based aesthetics of sensation, this book returns to an inaugural moment of modernism in an effort to demonstrate a more irreducible backstory.