Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
The Dreyfus Affair
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1987) 96-116
Keywords:
Dreyfus, Alfred,
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Degas, Edgar,
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Antisemitism History 19th century
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Trials (Treason)
Abstract:
Contends that although antisemitism is an exception to the rule in Edgar Degas’ art (e.g. his painting "At the Bourse", 1879, which hints at a Jewish financial conspiracy), and despite his deep friendships with Jews or persons of Jewish origin, such as the writer Ludovic Halévy, the Dreyfus Affair inspired in Degas a blatant antisemitism which caused him to break ties with those friends. Suggests that Degas may have suffered from "status anxiety", due to factors like his "arriviste" background and the threat to his upper-class life in 1898, so that antisemitism served him not only as a shield against downward mobility but as a mechanism of denial, differentiating his fragile status from that of the newly wealthy Jews whose position was almost indistinguishable from his own.
Note:
Appeared also in her collection "The Politics of Vision" (1991) 141-169.
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In Hebrew:
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פרשת דרייפוס והשתקפותה בספרות, באמנות ובתקשורת (תשנב) 92-109
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