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History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

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2009

Pamela J. Warner

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Compare And Contrast: Rhetorical Strategies In Edmond De Goncourt's Japonsime, Pamela Warner Dec 2008

Compare And Contrast: Rhetorical Strategies In Edmond De Goncourt's Japonsime, Pamela Warner

Pamela J. Warner

Studies of Japonisme have usually assumed a simple relationship of difference between Japanese and French art and culture, but Edmond de Goncourt's writing is remarkable for the number of comparisons he makes between France and Japan. This essay considers the influence of positivism on Goncourt’s assertions, looking also at how Goncourt's Japonisme extended arguments he made in the 1860s against French academic art.

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