Description |
224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-221) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: Courbet, the real allegory -- Innovation and tradition in Courbet's "A burial at Ornans" -- Gustave Courbet's 'Meeting": a portrait of the artist as a wandering Jew -- Gustave Courbet's "Toilette de la Mariée" -- Courbet, the Commune, and the visual arts -- The "Cribleuses de blé": Courbet, Millet, Breton, Kollwitz, and the image of the working woman -- In detail: Courbet's "A burial at Ornans" -- The de-politicization of Gustave Courbet: transformation and rehabilitation under the Third Republic -- Courbet, Oller and a sense of place: the regional, the provincial, and the picturesque in nineteenth-century art -- Courbet's "L'origine du monde": the origin without an original -- Courbet's real allegory: rereading "The painter's studio" -- Courbet and his territory: how landscape means. |
Subject |
Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Added Author |
Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877.
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ISBN |
9780500286760 paperback |
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0500286760 paperback |
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