Gustave Courbet

by Sylvain Amic, Kathryn Calley Galitz, Laurence Des Cars

Nowadays it is difficult to conceive of the impact that Gustave Courbet's paintings made on French art of the mid-nineteenth century. At once casting himself as revolutionary, bohemian and peasant, Courbet (1819-1877) overturned a deeply-entrenched tradition of academic painting in France, and, eschewing the Romanticism of Delacroix and the NeoClassicism of Ingres, coined instead an idiom he named "Realism." Realism was not pretty, classically proportioned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3775721096
• ISBN13: 9783775721097
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Length: 477 Pages
• Weight: 6.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 9.4" x 12.0"