Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures: Dr. Sara Pappas, “The Goncourt Brothers at the Museum: New Ways to Exhibit Nineteenth-Century French Art”
280 Park HallNineteenth-century French art was eclectic, but you would never know it. This eclecticism was considered a problem in the nineteenth century itself—an impediment to creating a cohesive narrative for the art production of the time. Joris-Karl Huysmans and Émile Zola in particular railed against what they saw as the eclectic nature of the art of […]