Image of the People by T J Clark

Image of the People by T J Clark

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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.

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Image of the People by T J Clark

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.
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.
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ISBN 13 9780500272459
ISBN 10 050027245X
Title Image of the People
Author T J Clark
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Year published 1982-04-01
Number of pages 208
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.