Looking At Manet, 9781843681588
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Zola’s writings on Manet were the first to identify the painter’s seminal role in the emergence of modern art.

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    144 pages

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    1 May 2018

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Summary

Time will succeed in classing him among the great workmen of this century who have given their life that truth might triumph - Zola on Manet, 1884. No one has written better on Manet than his friend Emile Zola, nor explained more clearly how modern art came into being through Manet’s genius. This volume collects all of Zola’s significant writings on Manet, from his passionate defence of the iconoclastic young painter to the essay written for the memorial exhibition after Manet’s untimely dea…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781843681588
ISBN-10:1843681587
Author:Émile Zola, Robert Lethbridge
Publisher:Pallas Athene Publishers
Imprint:Pallas Athene Publishers
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Edition:2nd
Release Date:1 May 2018
Weight:154g
Dimensions:145mm x 114mm
Series:Lives of the Artists
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Critics Review

“The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible publication.” - Historians of Netherlands Art Reviews

About The Author

Émile Zola

Émile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading writer of the Realist school, most famous for his series of twenty social novels, Les Rougon-Macquart. His passion- ate engagement with liberal politics led to his decisive inter- vention in the Dreyfus affair in 1898, the letter `J’accuse…!’

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