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University of California Press, Published 1987. Pictorial wraps, xxxiii, 315 pp.; 27 cm; First Edition (with full number line); illustrated throughout with black-and-white figures and plates.
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In Very Good condition. Yellow illustrated wraps reproducing Felix Vallotton's The Age of Paper (1898) on the front cover. Spine faded. Light bumping and creasing to edges and corners with mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Mild toning to inside covers and text block edges. Pages clean and unmarked.Catalogue of the landmark 1987 to 1988 Jewish Museum exhibition documenting the visual culture of the Dreyfus Affair: paintings, sculpture, prints, posters, caricatures, and ephemera produced by Dreyfusard and anti-Dreyfusard artists at the turn of the century. Edited by curator Norman L. Kleeblatt, with a foreword by Eugen Weber and essays by Paula Hyman, Benjamin F. Martin, Michael R. Marrus, Phillip Dennis Cate, Linda Nochlin, Susan Rubin Suleiman, and Michael Burns. Profusely illustrated, with a chronology of the Affair, an annotated list of characters, exhibition checklist, and bibliography.Contents: Chronology of the Dreyfus Affair; Annotated List of Characters; Lenders to the Exhibition; List of Donors; Exhibition Sponsors Committee; Foreword (Eugen Weber); Director's Preface; Acknowledgments; The Dreyfus Affair: A Visual Record (Norman L. Kleeblatt); The French Jewish Community from Emancipation to the Dreyfus Affair (Paula Hyman); The Dreyfus Affair and the Corruption of the French Legal System (Benjamin F. Martin); Popular Anti-Semitism (Michael R. Marrus); The Paris Cry: Graphic Artists and the Dreyfus Affair (Phillip Dennis Cate); Degas and the Dreyfus Affair: A Portrait of the Artist as an Anti-Semite (Linda Nochlin); The Literary Significance of the Dreyfus Affair (Susan Rubin Suleiman); The Dreyfus Family (Michael Burns); Plates; Exhibition Checklist; Bibliography.