Abstract
This article examines the politics, or rather the ethics, of the apparently apolitical but profoundly ethical artist Georges Braque, at a time of maximum ethical and political disturbance: the German occupation of France during World War II. It considers the response of the artist to “events,” invoking the notion of “active passivity” as expounded by the philosopher Jean Grenier, Albert Camus's teacher.
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