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Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century

Sara Pappas

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English
University of Toronto Press
18 March 2025
Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century examines one of the most revered art historical narratives of Western art: the famous turning point for painting and sculpture usually emblematised by the works of douard Manet and then the Impressionists.

Instead of the usual revaluation of this turning point, Sara Pappas argues for the importance of the failure to find a cohesive story for the art world in the period itself, a difficulty that carries forward to galleries today. In order to demonstrate the importance of incongruity and disorder, Pappas brings together two worlds that may seem incompatible: nineteenth-century literary writers involved in naturalism and the organisation of permanent collections of later nineteenth-century French art in today's museums. Drawing on the art novels and art criticism of these writers, the book provides optimal access to the questions that continue to haunt the categorisation and display of nineteenth-century art.
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Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 159mm,  Spine: 29mm
Weight:   600g
ISBN:   9781487549008
ISBN 10:   1487549008
Series:   University of Toronto Romance Series
Pages:   288
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Sara Pappas is an associate professor of French and visual culture at the University of Richmond. She lives in Richmond.

Reviews for Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century

""Sara Pappas deftly navigates the debates concerning the vexed definitions of realism and naturalism, along with academic and vanguard, as they evolved in the nineteenth-century French critical discourse of major novelists and art critics. Her keen parsing of the subtleties of language and her profound grasp of the range of art history and museum studies combine to produce analyses that brim with significant new insights. This is one of the best books that illustrates the bon mot that hardening of the categories produces art disease.""--Therese Dolan, Professor Emerita, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University ""For anyone dissatisfied by simplistic accounts of the shift from Salon academy traditionalism to Impressionist modernity, Sara Pappas's deeply interdisciplinary book provides an invaluable service. With expert attention to the novelistic worlds of the Goncourts, Zola, and Huysmans, Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century artfully disentangles key terms of art criticism in order to 're-entangle' them in ways faithful to the nineteenth century's aesthetic of mixing and multiplicity.""--Andrea Goulet, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Pennsylvania


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