ABSTRACT
This article proposes a reflection about the emblematic role that the late Cézanne assumed in relation to the emerging visuality in the threshold of the twentieth century. After a brief description of the theoretical bias adopted here (history of visuality), I present the way in which Cezanne’s late work intended to demonstrate a continuity between attention and reverie, although through a paradigmatic destabilization of vision. Finally, I argue that such destabilization points out two distinct instances: on the one hand, it alludes to an imminent model of passive automatism of vision; on the other, it raises new perceptual possibilities based on the unrepeatable singularity of vision.
KEYWORDS:
Visuality; Late Cézanne; Destabilization; Attention.