"Partout l’œil explose". Sartre e i saggi sulle arti figurative

Abstract

This text focuses on the essays that Sartre wrote in the late 40s and early 70s on a series of artists including  Giacometti, Calder, Tintoretto, Wols, Rebeyrolles etc. Our analysis aims to demonstrate how the phenomenological language and approach remain present and operative in Sartre’s writing even at a very advanced stage of its production. In particular we will examine two essays on the sculptures of Giacometti and Calder and then examine the writings that Sartre devoted to Tintoretto. In this way, we will be able to see phenomenology is still a conceptual tool that allows Sartre to elaborate a type of relationship with images that seems to anticipate the theses of Lyotard and, later, Didi-Huberman and many others.