The most arrogant man in France : Gustave Courbet and the nineteenth-century media culture / Petra t...
The most arrogant man in France : Gustave Courbet and the nineteenth-century media culture / Petra t...
The most arrogant man in France : Gustave Courbet and the nineteenth-century media culture / Petra ten-Doesschate Chu.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.
Call Numbers
NQ759.4/123
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
x, 238 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Contents
Introduction -- Courbet and the press -- Posing -- Courbet's pantheon -- Salon rhetoric -- Bisextuality -- Packaging and marketing nature -- Epilogue.
Publication information
Publisher
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
c2007.
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Access Conditions
State Reference Library copy: To be issued in Supervised Use Area.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"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 generat...
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Full title
The most arrogant man in France : Gustave Courbet and the nineteenth-century media culture / Petra ten-Doesschate Chu.
Portion of title
Gustave Courbet and the nineteenth-century media culture.
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-228) and index.
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NQ759.4/123
Record Identifier
74VK7wXmMdgM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7wXmMdgM
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ISBN
9780691126791 (cloth : alk. paper)
0691126798 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
759.4
MMS ID
991022687499702626
