Catalog of an exhibition held at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, Oct. 13, 2007-Jan. 28, 2008, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 27-May 18, 2008, and at the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, June 14-Sept. 28, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-468). French edition published in 2007 by the Réunion des muśes nationaux.
Contents:
Bibliography. Introduction -- Essays -- Courbet : utopia versus politics / Dominique Lobstein -- Realism and ambiguity in the paintings of Gustave Courbet / Dominique de Font-Réaulx -- "It was inevitable because it is not that we have encountered each other, it is our solutions" / Michel Hilaire -- 8. The legacy of truth : the reference to Courbet, from Manet to Cézanne / Laurence des Cars -- A complex genesis : Courbet in the laboratory / Bruno Mottin -- "What no one else sees" : the tangible reality of the photographs of Balthasar Burkhard / Dominique de Font-Réaulx -- Catalogue -- 1. Inventing Courbet : the early self-portraits -- 2. From the private to the historic -- 3. Manifestos -- 4. Courbet the landscapist -- 5. The modern temptation -- 6. The nude : tradition transgressed -- 7. The painter as melancholy hunter -- 8. The experience of history : Courbet and the commune -- Appendixes -- Chronology / Dominique Lobstein -- Courbet anthology : Correspondence, reviews, and documents -- Bibliography.
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