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‘Georges Duthuit’s Le Rose et le noir : Disseminating Walter Pater’s The Renaissance in the 1920s’

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My proposal presents a lesser-known study of Walter Pater published in 1923 (?) by a young undergraduate named Georges Duthuit (1891-1973). Hovering between different subjects, arguments, portraits, and disciplines, Le Rose et le noir was the first book-length publication of Duthuit, at the time having just obtained his Licence d’anglais (BA) in 1921, and about to embark on a career as a distinguished art historian specialized in Byzantine studies. Duthuit soon stood as a distinguished Franco-British mediator in art matters, a committed scholar and administrator and, later in the 1940s, an editor of Transition. He remains arguably an outstanding art historian but I would like to focus on his first study devoted to the vexed personal and professional relationships of Walter Pater (the titular pink) and Oscar Wilde (the black). Relying on (sometimes plagiarizing) the extant available biographies of Pater, trying to vindicate Wilde without disparaging his intellectual mentor, Duthuit attempts to chart the importance of Pater on Wilde’s deployment of Aestheticism before exploring the legacy of the movement in the 1920s in a time when it could have been described as a thing of the past. The Renaissance appears as Pater’s lasting imprint on Wilde with Duthuit recirculating ideas pertaining to aesthetics that, for the most part, had remained almost undiscussed in fin de siècle France. Pithy, ironical, subversive, sometimes awkward and not overly interested in accuracy, Le Rose et le noir also stands as one of the most original readings of Pater available in France in the early 1920s when translations of his writings started to appear after the first translation of The Renaissance by Roger-Cornaz was published in 1917.
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halshs-04140114, version 1 (24-06-2023)

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Bénédicte Coste. ‘Georges Duthuit’s Le Rose et le noir : Disseminating Walter Pater’s The Renaissance in the 1920s’. Walter Pater, The Renaissance, and Legacies of Aesthe7cism, Stefano Evangelista, Joseph Bristow, Jun 2023, Oxford United Kingdom, United Kingdom. ⟨halshs-04140114⟩
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