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su: Gustave Courbet
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Gustave CourbetPublication Date: 2008-03-01
By examining Courbet's major works, this splendid volume spans the Frenchman's entire artistic career and his involvement with politics. Renowned experts shed light on his development of a realistic, critical style, describe his great influence on both contemporaries and later generations, and consider his works in their own art-historical context, as well as his relationship to early photography, which also strove to create a faithful reproduction of reality.
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Gustave Courbet: Art to Read Series by Gustave Courbet (Artist); Ulf Küster (Contribution by)Publication Date: 2015-01-31
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) is considered to have introduced the practice of socially engaged painting, and he is viewed as one of the most important representatives of Realism. The direct and honest depictions of this artistic tendency-which ascribed to representing things as they are-challenged the idealized subject matter of academic painting and scandalized the Parisian society of the nineteenth century.
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Misère : the visual representation of misery in the 19th century by Linda NochlinPublication Date: 2018-04-10
In Misere, famed art historian Linda Nochlin reveals how, in the new form of civilization produced by the Industrial Revolution, in which the phenomenal growth of wealth occurred alongside an expansion of squalor, writers and artists of the nineteenth century used their craft to come to terms with what were often new and unprecedented social, material, and psychological circumstances.
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Courbet by Georges Riat; Patrick BadePublication Date: 2011-07-01
Ornans, Courbet's birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape. He went to Paris to study art, yet he did not attach himself to the studio of any of the prominent masters. Already in his country home he had had a little instruction in painting, and preferred to study the masterpieces of the Louvre. At first his pictures were not sufficiently distinctive to arouse any opposition, and were admitted to the Salon. He advocated painting things as they are, and proclaimed that la vérité vraie must be the aim of the artist.
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Gustave Courbet by Gerstle Mack.Publication Date: 1990
This biography by one of this most reliable students of French art paints a large and fascinating canvas, which Courbet dominates but never overwhelms.
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