At the Source : A Courbet Landscape Rediscovered / edited by André Dombrowski and Lynn D. Marsden-Atlass ; with essays by Jalen Chang [and nine others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dombrowski, André, editor.

Marsden-Atlass, Lynn D., editor.

Chang, Jalen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877--Exhibitions.

Courbet, Gustave.

Landscape painting, French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In 2016, a landscape painting of the source of the Lison river in France was discovered at the University of Pennsylvania and was immediately suspected of being the work of Gustave Courbet. A lengthy authentication process began in 2018 and the landscape has since been confirmed as his. This new discovery sparked an exhibition showcasing the infamous painter's modern landscape practice. Titled At the Source: A Courbet Landscape Rediscovered, the exhibition is presented at the University of Pennsylvania's Arthur Ross Gallery from February 4 to May 28, 2023. Focusing on the motifs of grottos and waterfalls in his art of the 1850s and 1860s, it highlights the rediscovered Courbet painting, not shown in public for close to 100 years, and emphasizes the process of authenticating and conserving this historic work.Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement of the mid nineteenth-century. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic conventions and the Romanticism of the previous generation of artists. Courbet's paintings of the late 1840s and early 1850s brought him his first recognition. They challenged tradition by depicting unidealized peasants and workers, often on a grand scale previously reserved for paintings of religious or historical subjects. Courbet's subsequent paintings offer a wide range of genres and broadened the political character of his art: landscapes, seascapes, hunting scenes, nudes, and still lifes.This heavily illustrated catalog brings together essays by leading Courbet scholars, including Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Aruna D'Souza, Paul Galvez, and Mary Morton, and situates Courbet's modern landscapes within the genre of nineteenth-century plein-air painting. Contextualizing the newly discovered work in relation to other visual depictions of the site, the catalog reproduces postcards and maps as well as the few other versions of the Source of the Lison that Courbet painted, including other related subjects. The essays draw connections between Courbet's paintings and his political activism, his interests in geology and environmentalism, and his engagement with issues of gender.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

THOMAS W. EVANS

COURBET AND THE SOURCE OF THE LISON:

OF SOURCES AND SALT

COURBET PAINTING IN NATURE

PATHS TO THE SOURCE

SOURCE, ORIGIN, ENDPOINT, PROJECTION, POSSESSION

DISPLAYS OF POWER

COURBET, OR NOT COURBET, THAT IS THE QUESTION

UNSETTLED GROUND:

PIGMENT ANALYSIS OF A LANDSCAPE BY GUSTAVE COURBET

COURBET IN CONTEXT

EXHIBITION CHECKLIST

FURTHER READING

CONTRIBUTORS

PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781734733853

1734733853

OCLC:

1378391357