What is it about?
the impact of the Dreyfus Affair on the lifelong friendship between Zola and Cézanne
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Why is it important?
demolishes legend that Zola's L'Oeuvre in 1886 was responsible for the breakdown of his relationship with Cézanne
Perspectives
In the light of the recently-discovered letter from Cézanne to Zola a year after the publication of L'Oeuvre, the parting of the ways needs to be explored in other perspectives: the consequences of Zola and Cézanne being on opposite sides in the Dreyfus Affair; and the efforts of art-dealers to disassociate painter and writer in the context of the painter's inaugural retrospective in 1895.
PROF ROBERT D LETHBRIDGE
University of Cambridge
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This page is a summary of: Rethinking Zola and Cézanne: Biography, politics and art criticism, Journal of European Studies, March 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0047244116629891.
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