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SHADES-OF PAINTING AT THE LIMIT
Studies in Continental Thought
John Sallis, general editor
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The Collected Writings of John Sallis
volume 1/10
The Collected Writings of John Sallis brings together all of John Sallis s writings from the late 1960s to the present. It includes all of his published books; several volumes of manuscripts and shorter texts, most of them previously unpublished; complete transcriptions of his lecture courses and seminars; and a series of addresses and interviews along with material based on his dialogues with several eminent philosophers and artists. Sallis s work ranges across the entire history of philosophy and engages the thought of several of the most significant philosophers of recent times. His writings are addressed to major philosophical themes such as the senses of art and of landscape, chorology and the legacies of Platonic thought, the elemental in nature, and, above all, imagination.
SHADES-OF PAINTING THE LIMIT
JOHN SALLIS
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To my brother, Jim
CONTENTS
List of Plates
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
PLATES FOLLOW PAGE
Adumbrations
ONE
Shades of Time: Monet s Wheatstacks
TWO
Thresholds of Abstract Painting: Kandinsky and the Stage of Composition
THREE
Very Ancient Memories: Paladino s Recondite Images
Index of Proper Names
List of Plates
1. Claude Monet, Wheatstacks in the Sunlight, Midday (W 1271), 1890.
2. Claude Monet, Wheatstacks, End of Summer, Evening Effect (W 1269), 1891.
3. Claude Monet, Wheatstack, Snow Effect, Morning (W 1280), 1891.
4. Claude Monet, Wheatstack, Sunset (W 1289), 1891.
5. Claude Monet, Wheatstacks, Sunset, Snow Effect (W 1278), 1891.
6. Claude Monet, Wheatstack, Snow Effect, Overcast Day (W 1281), 1891.
7. Claude Monet, Wheatstack (W 1283), 1891.
8. Claude Monet, Wheatstacks, Effect of Hoar-Frost (W 1277), 1891.
9. Claude Monet, Wheatstacks, Winter Effect (W 1279), 1891.
10. Claude Monet, Wheatstack (W 1285), 1891.
11. Claude Monet, Wheatstack, Thaw, Sunset (W 1284), 1891.
12. Wassily Kandinsky, Composition IV , 1911.
13. Wassily Kandinsky, Composition V , 1911.
14. Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VI , 1913.
15. Mimmo Paladino, Silent Red [Rosso silenzioso], 1980.
16. Mimmo Paladino, Untitled [Senza titolo], 1989.
17. Mimmo Paladino, On Tiptoe [In punta di piedi], 1990.
18. Mimmo Paladino, Souvenirs , 1990.
19. Mimmo Paladino, Untitled (Mask) [Senza titolo (Maschera)], 1990 (frontal).
20. Mimmo Paladino, Untitled (Mask) [Senza titolo (Maschera)], 1990 (lateral).
List of Figures
1. Claude Monet, Haystacks at Chailly at Sunrise (W 1989-55 bis), 1865.
2. Claude Monet, The Haystack (W 994), 1885.
3. Photograph of wheatstacks behind Monet s house at Giverny, 1905.
4. Claude Monet, The Red Kerchief: Portrait of Camille Monet (W 257), 1873.
5. Wassily Kandinsky, All Saints 1 [Allerheiligen I], early summer 1911.
6. Wassily Kandinsky, All Saints 1 [Allerheiligen I], July-August 1911.
7. Wassily Kandinsky, Composition II , 1910.
8. Mimmo Paladino, EN DE RE , 1977.
9. Mimmo Paladino, Untitled [Senza titolo], 1989.
10. Mimmo Paladino, Open [Apre], 1989. Work in four parts (second part).
11. Mimmo Paladino, Souvenirs , 1990.
12. Mimmo Paladino, Ornamental Landscape [Paesaggio ornato], 1990.
13. Forte Belvedere, Florence.
14. Mimmo Paladino, Horse [Cavallo], 1991.
15. Mimmo Paladino, Untitled [Senza titolo], n.d.
16. Mimmo Paladino, Untitled (Fountain) [Senza titolo (Fontana)], 1987.
17. Mimmo Paladino, Untitled (Fountain) [Senza titolo (Fontana)],1987-with RESPIRO in the background.
18. Mimmo Paladino, Alone [Solo], 1992.
19. Mimmo Paladino, Witnesses [Testimoni], 1992.
20. Mimmo Paladino, Sculpture dedicated to Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, consisting of one wooden sculpture and seven oils on panel, Choral I-VII [Corale I-VII], 1992.
21. Mimmo Paladino, Untitled [Senza titolo], 1993.
22. Mimmo Paladino, Untitled [Senza titolo], 1993.
23. Mimmo Paladino, Nocturnal Song [Canto Notturno], 1984.
24. Mimmo Paladino, Witnesses [Testimoni], 1992.
25. Mimmo Paladino, Untitled [Senza titolo], 1988.
26. Mimmo Paladino, Witnesses [Testimoni], 1992.
27. Mimmo Paladino, Witnesses [Testimoni], 1992.
28. Mimmo Paladino, Witnesses [Testimoni], 1992.
29. Mimmo Paladino, Witnesses [Testimoni], 1992.
Acknowledgments
This book draws upon a series of papers that appeared in Tema Celeste; to Demetrio Paparoni, editor of this contemporary art review, I am grateful for permission to use material from these papers. I want also to thank Sperone Westwater Gallery (New York) for permission to use material that appeared in the exhibition catalogue Amici .
I am grateful also to Magdalena Dabrowski, Curator at The Museum of Modern Art (New York), whose generous assistance was invaluable in acquiring the materials and permissions needed for certain reproductions. Above all, I want to express my deep gratitude to my editor and friend Janet Rabinowitch; this book has benefited enormously from her expert editorial advice and from her tireless and uncompromising effort in its behalf.
Thanks also to my wife Jerry for her photographs of the Paladino mask ( plates 19 and 20 ). I am grateful also to my daughter Lauren Lewis and to Nancy Fedrow and Robert Metcalf for help during the preparation and production of this book.
Boalsburg
February 1998
SHADES-OF PAINTING THE LIMIT
Plate 1 . Claude Monet
Wheatstacks in the Sunlight, Midday (W 1271), 1890.
65.6 100.6 cm.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Plate 2 . Claude Monet
Wheatstacks, End of Summer, Evening Effect (W 1269), 1891.
60 100 cm.
The Art Institute of Chicago (Arthur M. Wood in memory of Pauline Palmer Wood, 1985.1103). Photograph 1996, The Art Institute of Chicago, All Rights Reserved.

Plate 3 . Claude Monet
Wheatstack, Snow Effect, Morning (W 1280), 1891.
65 92 cm.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (gift of Misses Aim e and Rosamond Lamb in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Horatio A. Lamb. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

Plate 4 . Claude Monet
Wheatstack, Sunset (W 1289), 1891.
73 92 cm.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

Plate 5 . Claude Monet
Wheatstacks, Sunset, Snow Effect (W 1278), 1891.
65 100 cm.
The Art Institute of Chicago (Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer Collection, 1922.431). Photograph 1996, The Art Institute of Chicago, All Rights Reserved.

Plate 6 . Claude Monet
Wheatstack, Snow Effect, Overcast Day (W 1281), 1891.
65 92 cm.
The Art Institute of Chicago (Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1933.1155). Photograph 1997, The Art Institute of Chicago, All Rights Reserved.

Plate 7 . Claude Monet
Wheatstack (W 1283), 1891.
65 92 cm.
The Art Institute of Chicago (Restricted gift of the Searle Family Trust; Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment; through prior acquisitions of the Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson and Potter Palmer Collections; through prior bequest of Jerome Friedman, 1983.29). Photograph 1997, The Art Institute of Chicago, All Rights Reserved.

Plate 8 . Claude Monet
Wheatstacks, Effect of Hoar-Frost (W 1277), 1891.
65 92 cm.
The National Gallery of Scotland.

Plate 9 . Claude Monet
Wheatstacks, Winter Effect (W 1279), 1891.
65 92 cm.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929, 29.100.109). Photograph 1996, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Plate 10 . Claude Monet
Wheatstack (W 1285), 1891.
65 92 cm.
Galerie Larock-Granoff, Paris.

Plate 11 . Claude Monet
Wheatstack, Thaw, Sunset (W 1284), 1891.
65 92 cm.
The Art Institute of Chicago (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Searle, 1983.166). Photograph 1997, The Art Institute of Chicago, All Rights Reserved.

Plate 12 . Wassily Kandinsky
Composition IV, 1911.
159.5 250.5 cm.
Kunstsamml