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Gustave Courbet
- Author
- Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877.
- Title
- Gustave Courbet / with essays by Dominique Font-Réaulx ... [et al.].
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, c2008.
- Description
- 477 p. : ill. (mostly col.) ; 31 cm.
- Other contributors
- Font-Réaulx, Dominique de. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Musée Fabre.
- Notes
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, Oct. 13, 2007-Jan. 28, 2008, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 27-May 18, 2008, and at the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, June 14-Sept. 28, 2008. French edition published in 2007 by the Réunion des muśes nationaux. Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-468).
- Contents
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- Preface
- Introduction
- Essays
- Courbet : utopia versus politics / Bertrand Tillier
- Realism and ambiguity in the paintings of Gustave Courbet / Dominique de Font-Réaulx
- "It was inevitable because it is not that we have encountered each other, it is our solutions" / Michel Hilaire
- A legacy of truth : the reference to Courbet, from Manet to Cézanne / Laurence des Cars
- A complex genesis : Courbet in the laboratory / Bruno Mottin
- "What no one else sees" : the tangible reality of the photographs of Balthasar Burkhard / Dominique de Font-Réaulx
- Catalogue
- 1. Inventing Courbet : the early self-portraits
- 2. From the private to the historic
- 3. Manifestos
- 4. Courbet the landscapist
- 5. The modern temptation
- 6. The nude : tradition transgressed
- 7. The painter as melancholy hunter
- 8. The experience of history : Courbet and the commune
- Appendixes
- Chronology / Dominique Lobstein
- Courbet anthology : Correspondence, reviews, and documents
- Bibliography.
- Subject headings
- Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877--Exhibitions.
- Kinsey subjects
- Painting--France.
- ISBN
- 9783775721097 3775721096 9781588392343 (museum ed., hardcover) 1588392341 (museum ed., hardcover) 9781588392367 (museum ed., softcover) 1588392368 (museum ed., softcover)