Opposing Frames
Zola and Fromentin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21728577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Lethbridge (University of St Andrews, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 94-113 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dix-Neuf (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-7318 • E-ISSN: 1478-7342 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14787318.2023.2218217 |
| OpenAlex | W4386365420 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Grounded in Zola’s art criticism, this article analyses for the first time his writing on Fromentin over the decade 1866–76. It explores the diverse reasons for a hostility that is inseparable from a wider frame of reference in which Orientalism is perceived as emblematic of a Romantic aesthetic opposed by Zola. Paradoxically, however, Zola’s engagement with Fromentin’s Les Maîtres d’autrefois, opposed to modernist innovation, coincides with his own increasing disenchantment with Impressionism. His simultaneous re-evaluation of the Old Masters allows us to discern shared pictorial priorities which bring Zola and Fromentin into the same critical frame
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Criticism · Disenchantment · Literature · Orientalism · Political science · Romance · Sociology · Computer Science · European Cultural and National Identity · French Literature and Criticism · History, Culture, and Diplomacy · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |