Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution by T. J. Clark
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Image of the People
Summary
This work discusses the art of Gustave Courbet in the years directly after the 1848 revolution, showing how complex Courbet's intuition of the social and political issues of the time really was, and how appropriate were the pictures he painted for the Salon of 1851.
Image of the People Summary
About T. J. Clark
T.J. Clark is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the seminal The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers (1984) and Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (1999). He writes art criticism regularly for the London Review of Books. His other publications include Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution (1983), also published by Thames & Hudson.
Table of Contents
On the social history of art; the Courbet legend; Courbet's early years; Courbet in Paris 1848-49; Courbet in Ornans and Besancon 1849-50; Courbet in Dijon and Paris 1850-51.
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GOR002880839
9780500272459
050027245X
Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution by T. J. Clark
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Thames & Hudson Ltd
19820401
208
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