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Champfleury, Jules (1821-1889)

Coordinated by Michela Lo Feudo

Université de Naples Federico II

Jules-François-Félix Husson-Fleury (1821-1889) was born in Laon, Picardy (France). From the 1850s onwards, he conceived the idea of a total art that could encompass literature, music, visual and performing arts, and the practice of collecting, while giving pride of place to forms of expression located on the margins of aesthetic hierarchies. He therefore contributed to the invention of folk art in the 19th century with a vast and diverse body of work, including a series of monographic studies on atypical art forms (caricature, imagery, folk songs, etc.).

Keywords: Publicist | Writer | Museum curator | Second half of the 19th century | Folk arts

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