Marcel Proust

This season, Maud Hagelstein, art philosopher and researcher at FNRS/​ULiège, brings you on a journey through literature to search for stories about art. 

In ​“In Search of Lost Time” (“The Prisoner”), Marcel Proust recounts the extreme shock felt by the writer Bergotte before the ​“View of Delft” painting by Vermeer. The colour in its materiality, this ​“little yellow section of wall” on which Bergotte’s eye fixates, elicits a real trauma in him: dizzy, he collapses onto a sofa and dies. We’ll take this famous story, tackle the issues it raises, and through it we’ll question the bedazzling and disruptive power of painting. 

SUN. 01.12.2019
14:30 > 16:00

Fee (entrance to the museum and tea time included)
Adults: € 10 Seniors, students and teachers: € 6
- 12 years old: € 4
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Sub­scrip­tion (4 taster and up): € 6/​taster

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