Waistcoated, goateed, or in stays and flowered hats, each of the viewers is wearing glasses, one lens red and the other green, as he or she stares at the utterly enthralling display of a cow in 3-D drinking from the banks of a startlingly convincing stream. For the reader, looking on from outside, everything is labeled, the red beam, the green one, and, where they cross, the emergence of white light...

Cézanne, we remember, is the very personification of the phenomenologist's "now," the artist who was able to outwait appearances so that the meaning of depth could well up within him. He is the artist who was able so absolutely to synthesize the time of this waiting into a single, inextricable unity that he seemed to provide the very proof of the notion of the gestalt.

Rosalind Krauss, The Optical Unconscious (MA: MIT Press, 1993), p. 209 and p. 226.