Courbet in perspective / edited by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate.

Series:

Artists in perspective series

The Artists in perspective series

A Spectrum book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877.

Courbet, Gustave.

Physical Description:

x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 161 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1977]

Contents:

A biography of Courbet / Jules-Antoine Castagnary

Courbet drawn from life / Théophilè Silvestre

Courbet's entourage / Alexandre Schanne

Method and doctrine / Emile Bouvier

Courbet in his century / Klaus Berger

Courbet and his critics / George Boas

Courbet as a portrait painter / Pierre Courthion

Courbet's nudes / Kenneth Clark

Courbet as a landscapist / Bernard Dorival

Courbet's still lifes / Charles Sterling

An introduction to the Stonebreakers and the Funeral at Ornans / Max Buchon

In defense of the Funeral at Ornans / Champfleury

The moral of the Funeral at Ornans / Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Innovation and tradition in Courbet's Burial at Ornans / Linda Nochlin

A bourgeois dance of death: Max Buchon on Courbet / Timothy J. Clark

An artist's view of Courbet's studio / Eugène Delacroix

The painter's studio: its place in nineteenth-century art / Werner Hofmann

The painter's studio / Alan Bowness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-149) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.

ISBN:

0131844326.

OCLC:

2463652