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The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture
The Most Arrogant Man in France Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture
Author: Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
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, the first comprehensive reinterpretation of Courbet in a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691126791
ISBN-10: 0691126798
Publication Date: 3/12/2007
Pages: 248
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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