The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture

by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu

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A comprehensive reinterpretation of the pioneering and media-savvy artist

The modern artist strives to be independent of the public's taste--and yet depends on the public for a living. Petra Chu argues that the French Realist Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) understood this dilemma perhaps better than any painter before him. In The Most Arrogant Man in France, Chu tells the fascinating story of how, in the initial age of mass media...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:B0000COB7Y

ISBN13:9780691126791

Release Date:April 2007

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 8.6" x 11.2"

Related Subjects

Art Art History Arts, Music & Photography History & Criticism Humanities Individual Artists

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