Linda Nochlin
Courbet
New York:
Thames and Hudson,
2006.
224 pp.; 14 color ills.; 95 b/w ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9780500286760)
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August 5, 2008
Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture
Princeton:
Princeton University Press,
2007.
248 pp.; 49 color ills.; 88 b/w ills.
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(9780691126791)
J. Paul Getty Museum
Looking at the Landscapes: Courbet and Modernism (Papers from a Symposium Held at the J. Paul Getty Museum on March 18, 2006)
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2006.
87 pp.; 72 color ills.; 12 b/w ills.
(9780892369270)
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When describing The Painter’s Studio: A Real Allegory Summing up Seven Years of My Artistic and Moral Life (1855) in a letter to a friend, Gustave Courbet notoriously quipped, “It’s pretty mysterious. Good luck to anyone who can make it out!” Art historians have long grappled with the ambiguities of Courbet’s oeuvre, and recent books by Linda Nochlin and Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu, as well as an online publication by the Getty Museum, demonstrate the ever-present...