The novelist’s fierce reviews of the 1866 Paris Salon, in which the young Zola defended his friend Édouard Manet and attacked the academic jury. It is a manifesto for realism and artistic independence at the birth of modern painting.
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1866 · Book · Public Domain
The novelist’s fierce reviews of the 1866 Paris Salon, in which the young Zola defended his friend Édouard Manet and attacked the academic jury. It is a manifesto for realism and artistic independence at the birth of modern painting.