Gustave Courbet / George Riat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riat, Georges.

Series:

Temporis collection.

Temporis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Courbet, Gustave.

Painters--France--Biography.

Painters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Parkstone International, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Child of materialism and positivism, Courbet was without a doubt one of the most complex painters of the nineteenth century. Symbolising the rejection of traditions, Courbet did not hesitate to confront the public with the truth by liberating painting of conventional rules. He became from then on the leader of pictorial realism. This text on Courbet is the result of years of intensive research and traces with great care contradictory testimonies, the praises as well as the negative critics this controversial painter had during his times. By his precision as an art historian, Georges Riat sheds

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Childhood and Youth in Ornans and Besançon; I. The Beginnings; Paris and the First Salons; The First Exhibitions in Paris; The First Successes of Realism; Courbet's First Successes; Courbet as a Socialist Painter; The two others works went more or less unnoticed.; II. Glory; Courbet: the Centre of Controversy; The Controversy surrounding Realism; III. Decline; The Beginning of the End; The Case of The Woman with the Parrot; Courbet under the Commune; The Fall; The Arrest; Conclusion: Death of a Master; Chronology; List of Illustrations

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Title from online resource, PDF version ; viewed on September 14, 2023.

ISBN:

9781283958202

1283958201

9781780429908

1780429908

OCLC:

793996014