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- As the art critic for La Presse from 1838-1845, and as the literary commentator for the Journal Officiel (until 1870) and other publications, Gautier rejected prevailing aesthetic notions and attacked the hypocrisy of French culture and morality.
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It is through Nerval that Gautier was introduced to Victor Hugo, by then already a leading dramatist. Hugo became a major influence on Gautier. It was at the legendary premiere of Hugo's Hernani that Gautier is remembered for wearing his anachronistic red doublet.
This chapter discusses the importance attributed to conjecture in Baudelaire’s writings on Théophile Gautier and Victor Hugo. It shows how Baudelaire diverges from Poe in seeing beauty not as ‘an ecstatic prescience of the glories beyond the grave’ but as a glimpse of mysteries in the here and now. Recalling the ‘conjecturisme’ of ...
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French art critic and poet; primary exponent of the art-for-art’s sake approach. Gautier was the son of bureaucrat in the French tax office, Pierre Gautier, and his mother was mother was Antoinette-Adelaïde Concarde. In 1814 his family moved to Paris where Gautier received a formal education at the Collège Charlemagne. In 1829 he entered the studio...
Mademoiselle de Maupin: double amour. Paris: E. Renduel, 1835-1836; Tra los montes. Paris: G. Charpentier et cie, 1843 [most commonly cited edition is the 2nd, corrected ed. Voyage en Espagne. Paris: G. Charpentier, 1845]; Les Beaux-Arts en Europe, 1855. 2 vols. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1855-1856; L’art moderne. Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1856; Abécédai...
Richardson, Joanna. Théophile Gautier, his Life & Times. London: Coward-McCann 1959; Spencer, Michael C. The Art Criticism of Theophile Gautier. Geneva: Droz, 1969; Licht, Fred. Goya in Perspective. Engelwood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973, p. 170; Snell, Robert. Théophile Gautier, a Romantic Critic of the Visual Arts. New York: Oxford University ...
May 17, 2018 · In 1829, Gérard introduced Gautier to the already-famous Victor Hugo. Dazzled by Hugo's presence and position as leader of the new Romantic school, Gautier enthusiastically supported Hugo's theatrical endeavors with his flamboyant behavior at the premiere of Hugo's play Hernani (1830), a performance that marked victory in the campaign to gain ...
Central to the acceptance of romantic artists and writers in nineteenth century France, Gautier was a fervent promoter of such figures as Victor Hugo and Charles Baudelaire. His key role in...
Aug 27, 2024 · Théophile Gautier was a poet, novelist, critic, and journalist whose influence was strongly felt in the period of changing sensibilities in French literature—from the early Romantic period to the aestheticism and naturalism of the end of the 19th century. Gautier lived most of his life in Paris.
May 3, 2016 · "Victor Hugo" by Théophile Gautier is a literature-focused memoir written in the early 20th century. The text reflects on the life and impact of Victor Hugo, framed within the context of the Romantic literary movement in France.
