The most arrogant man in France : Gustave Courbet and the nineteenth-century media culture /

"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...

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Online Access:Electronic book from Art & Architecture ePortal
Main Author: Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
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