Author: Gustave Courbet
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: courbet, gustave, letters
Number of Pages: 733
Published: 1992-03-15
List price: $91.00
ISBN-10: 0226116530
ISBN-13: 9780226116532

The French Realist painter Gustave Courbet (1819-77), a pivotal figure in the emergence of modern painting, remains an artist whose interests, attitudes, and friendships are little understood. A voluminous correspondent, Courbet himself, through his letters, offers a tantalizing avenue toward a keener assessment of his character and accomplishments. In her critical edition of over six hundred of the artist’s letters, Petra ten-Doesschate Chu presents just such a look at the inner life of the artist; her unparalleled feat of gathering together all of Courbet’s

Author: Michael Fried
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: realism, courbet
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 1992-11-15
List price: $51.00
ISBN-10: 0226262154
ISBN-13: 9780226262154

"’This book,’ Michael Fried’s work opens, ’was written not so much chapter by chapter as painting by painting over a span of roughly ten years.’ Courbet’s Realism is a magnificent work and its very first sentence brings us up against the qualities of mind of its author, qualities that make it as impressive as it is. It allows us to reconstruct the keen eye, the commitment to perception, the gift of rapt concentration, the conviction that great paintings are not necessarily understood easily, and the further conviction that a great painter deserves to get fro

Author: James Henry Rubin
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Keywords: ideas, art, amp, courbet
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1997-05-23
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0714831808
ISBN-13: 9780714831800

Few artists have been so directly invoved in the events of their time as Gustave Courbert. Amid the social transformations of the mid-19th century, Courberts unconventional and stark paintings came to embody values with radical political implications. Rebuffed by the Parisian art world and attacked as a"Realist", he seized upon that name to assert his sympathy for ordinary citizens and their down-to-earth experience. Coubert painted subjects from the world around him: from rural labourersand family gatherings to sensuous landscapes, hunting scenes, still lifes, portraits and erotic nudes. Jame

Author: Gerstle Mack
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: paperback, capo, courbet, gustave
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 1989-08-22
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0306803755
ISBN-13: 9780306803758

No biographer could ask for a more colorful or difficult subject than the painter and revolutionary Gustave Courbet. One of the fathers of Realism, a style he created with his huge canvases of his birthplace in Ornans (After Dinner at Ornans, 1949; Funeral at Ornans, 1850, and The Stonebreakers, 1850), Courbet chose his subjects from ordinary life and portrayed them with the same monumental dignity as the great men of history. A man with big appetites for life, women, and politics, he frequently found himself at odds with French authorities, especially during the period of the Commune when he

Author: Fabrice Masanes
Publisher: Taschen
Keywords: art, basic, taschen, courbet, gustave
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 3822856835
ISBN-13: 9783822856833

Unsentimental realism "I maintain," stated Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), "that painting is clearly a concrete art whose existence lies only in the representation of real and existing objects...." Courbet, who influenced and advised the fledgling Impressionists, was an outstanding representative of a naturalistic realism that highlights the contradictions and inequities in society. Revolutionary were Courbet’s style, with dark hues and heavy brushstrokes, and choice of subject—depictions the life of plain people treated in an unsentimental, down to earth manner. His influence was enormou