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The artist and the writer in France : essays in honour of Jean Seznec / edited by Francis Haskell, Anthony Levi, and Robert Shackleton.

Contributor(s): Seznec, Jean | Haskell, Francis, 1928-2000 | Levi, Anthony | Shackleton, Robert
Language: English, French Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1974.Description: xii, 184 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0198171870Subject(s): Seznec, Jean | Arts, French
Contents:
Blunt, A. Naples as seen by French travellers, 1630-1780.--Watson, F. Diderot and Houdon: a little-known bust.--Taylor, S. Artists and philosophes as mirrored by Sèvres and Wedgwood.--Whiteley, J. Homer abandoned: a French neo-classical theme.--Herbert, R. Baron Gros's Napoleon and Voltaire's Henri IV.--Wakefield, D. Stendhal and Delécluze at the Salon of 1824.--Lanes, J. Art criticism and the authorship of the Chef-d'ëoìeuvre inconnu: a preliminary study.--Georgel, P. De Thomas Couture à Jean Valjean: une lettre de Charles Hugo à son père, Victor Hugo (1843).--Fairlie, A. Flaubert and some painters of his time.--Reff, T. Images of Flaubert's Queen of Sheba in later nineteenth-century art.--Praz, M. Two masters of the absurd: Grandville and Carroll.--Kelley, D. Modernité in Baudelaire's art criticism.--Austin, L. Mallarmé critique d'art.--Barnes, A. Proust et les patins de Goethe.--Adhémar, J. A personal postscript.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Blunt, A. Naples as seen by French travellers, 1630-1780.--Watson, F. Diderot and Houdon: a little-known bust.--Taylor, S. Artists and philosophes as mirrored by Sèvres and Wedgwood.--Whiteley, J. Homer abandoned: a French neo-classical theme.--Herbert, R. Baron Gros's Napoleon and Voltaire's Henri IV.--Wakefield, D. Stendhal and Delécluze at the Salon of 1824.--Lanes, J. Art criticism and the authorship of the Chef-d'ëoìeuvre inconnu: a preliminary study.--Georgel, P. De Thomas Couture à Jean Valjean: une lettre de Charles Hugo à son père, Victor Hugo (1843).--Fairlie, A. Flaubert and some painters of his time.--Reff, T. Images of Flaubert's Queen of Sheba in later nineteenth-century art.--Praz, M. Two masters of the absurd: Grandville and Carroll.--Kelley, D. Modernité in Baudelaire's art criticism.--Austin, L. Mallarmé critique d'art.--Barnes, A. Proust et les patins de Goethe.--Adhémar, J. A personal postscript.

Articles in English or French.