Smart Museum of Art University of Chicago

Literary Objects: Flaubert

This publication documents the exhibition Literary Objects: Flaubert, shown at the Smart Museum in the spring of 1995. Organized by Philippe Desan, Professor of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago, and his graduate and undergraduate students, Literary Objects explored the concept of the commodity as seen through the writings of Gustave Flaubert. The exhibition display included furniture, paintings, prints, sculpture, and other objets d'art. Together with selected passages from Flaubert, these objects referred to overlapping worlds of the French middle class: the domestic interior, the political arena, the imagined Orient, and the historical past.

Essays by Phillipe Desan and Mark Wolff and Britt Salvesen

with a meditation by Régine Robin and contributions from Fanny Clonch, Catherine Collet-Jarard, Maria Edstrom, Sarah Hurlburt, Florence Vatan, Mythili Venkataraman, and Mark Wolff

$9.95
Paper, 64 pages, 21 black and white images
ISBN: 9780935573176
© 1998