Courbet's Landscapes

The Origins of Modern Painting

Courbet's Landscapes
Paul Galvez
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Hardback
h27 x 21mm - 208pg
10 May 2022 US
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9780300244137
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A groundbreaking insight into Gustave Courbet and his bold experiments in landscape painting Between 1862 and 1866 Gustave Courbet embarked on a series of sensuous landscape paintings that would later inspire the likes of Monet, Pissarro, and Cezanne. This series has long been neglected in favor of Courbet' s paintings of rural French life. Courbet' s Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting explores these astonishing paintings, staking a claim for their importance to Courbet' s work and later developments in French modernism. Ranging from the grottoes of Courbet' s native Franche-Comte to the beaches of Normandy, Paul Galvez follows the artist on his travels as he uses a palette-knife to transform the Romantic landscape of voyage into a direct, visceral confrontation with the material world. The Courbet he discovers is not the celebrated history painter of provincial life, but a committed landscapist whose view of nature aligns him with contemporary developments in geology, history, linguistics, and literature.
"A brilliant and provocative tour-de-force that places these works on fertile new ground, with important consequences for following generations. " - James H. Rubin, author of Why Monet Matters: Meanings Among the Lily Pads "Highly original, engaging, and eloquent, Courbet' s Landscapes radically recasts our understanding of the painter of Ornans, offering a fresh insight into how one painted in nineteenth-century France. " - Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard University
Paul Galvez is research associate at the Edith O' Donnell Institute of Art History, University of Texas.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780300244137
Published: 10 May 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 27mm
Width: 21mm
Pages: 208

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