The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture - Petra ten-Doesschate Chu - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691126791 - April 1, 2007
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The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture


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The modern artist strives to be independent of the publicness taste - and yet depends on the public for a living. This book argues that the French Realist Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) understood this dilemma perhaps better than any painter before him.


248 pages, 49 color plates. 88 halftones.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released April 1, 2007
ISBN13 9780691126791
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 248
Dimensions 208 × 280 × 24 mm   ·   1.22 kg
Language English  

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