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work_xbfyijwjija2zfmwtem6nhmiyq	Marcello Sessa	The Modernist Iconography of Sleep. Leo Steinberg, Picasso and The Representation of States of Consciousness	2021	22	.pdf	application/pdf	8049	631	61	Leo Steinberg, Pablo Picasso, Cubism, Phenomenology, Modernism According to Steinberg, Picasso brings in emotional states (well exemplified, in our case study, by the emotional hues involved in sleeping and waking) on canvas not much for their "dramatic interest" (Fry 1927, 10), but as if as a "flatbed picture plane" (Steinberg 2002, 27-36; 2007b, 82-91), and allows us to draw a explicit analogy between Picasso's conceptual painting Steinberg deals with the specific theme of sleep because it is paradigmatic of the tension between Picasso's figurative impulse and the antifigurative drive inherent in most modernist paintings. Thus, in Picasso's artworks the representation of sleep acquires the Warburgian status of "scientific object" by "the mere inventing of […] an analytical level"5 (Paskaleva 2016, 47), because it "enters his work almost like 22 "I borrow the term from the flatbed printing press." It's used by Steinberg to describe a radically new treatment of the picture plane as phenomenologically operational: 	./cache/work_xbfyijwjija2zfmwtem6nhmiyq.pdf	./txt/work_xbfyijwjija2zfmwtem6nhmiyq.txt