Courbet And the Modern Landscape
by Mary Morton; Charlotte EyermanFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-02-21
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press, USA
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Summary
Courbet and the Modern Landscape explores Gustave Courbet's radical innovations in landscape painting. The authors reconsider Courbet's achievements in this genre in relation to his controversial career, to the importance of his landscape work in the emergence of Modernism, and to nineteenth-century landscape photography.
Author Biography
Mary Morton is associate curator, and Charlotte Eyerman is assistant curator in the Department of Paintings at the Getty Museum.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Lenders to the Exhibition | p. xi |
| To Create a Living Art: Rethinking Courbet's Landscape Painting | p. 1 |
| Courbet's Legacy in the Twentieth Century | p. 21 |
| Reproducing Reality: Landscape Photography of the 1850s and 1860s in Relation to the Paintings of Gustave Courbet | p. 39 |
| Plates | |
| Cliffs and Valleys | p. 55 |
| Forests and Streams | p. 67 |
| Rocks and Grottoes | p. 81 |
| Snowscapes | p. 91 |
| Seascapes | p. 103 |
| Switzerland | p. 111 |
| Bibliography | p. 128 |
| Checklist | p. 132 |
| Authors | p. 135 |
| Index | p. 136 |
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