Zolas Painters

As The Author Of The Twenty-volume Rougon-macquart Series, Mile Zola Enjoys A Reputation As One Of The Greatest Novelists Of The 19th Century: But His Essays On Painting, And In Particular His Early Championing Of Manet, Mark Him Out Also As One Of The Most Significant Art Critics Of The Age. Zolas Painters Is The First Book To Explore The Entirety Of This Body Of Work In Its Own Right: Some 150 Texts Written Over Thirty Years. Robert Lethbridge, Editor Of The Classiques Garnier Edition Of This Corpus (two-thirds Of Which He Unearthed Himself From The Newspapers In Which They Original Appeared), Now Offers A Radical Reevaluation Of Zolas Writing On Contemporary Artists.