Author: Herding, Klaus
Title: Courbet : To Venture Independence
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, (1991). orig.cloth. 26x18cm, viii,269 pp. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Redeemer and Charlatan, Subversive and Martyr: Remarks on Courbet's Roles; "Les Lutteurs Détestables": Critique of Style and Society in Courbet's 'Wrestlers'; 'The Painter's Studio': Focus of World Events, Site of Reconciliation; Equality and Authority in Courbet's Landscape Painting; Proudnon's 'Carnets intimes' and Courbet's 'Portrait of Proudhon'; Color and Worldview; A Note on the Late Work; Courbet's Modernity as Reflected in Caricature;

Keywords: French Art History, Gustave Courbet, Criticism, , , , , ,