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Courbet deserves better
Bade, the author, focuses on the part of Courbet's work that shock and titillate - a large and fascinating body of work, but by no means the whole of Courbet's output. Bade places these works in the context of 19th century morality, where the English hardly monopolized Victorian reserve about matters of the body. He also frames Courbet in terms of the French art world of his time, where entry into major salons could advance an artist's career, and exclusion from them stagnate or kill that career.

The book opens with Courbet's startling "Origin of the World," a direct, even confrontational tribute to women's potential for procreation and birth. It moves on through other works (like the cover image) that more-than-hint at physical love between women, or at physical love for sale. Some of these works use academic respectability or mythical reference to veil the models' nudity. Courbet's animal intensity always lies close to the surface, though, just as it did in biographical episodes that Bade relates.

Although this book displays a beautiful and enticing selection from Courbet's ouvre, I find the presentation lacking. Even within the book's modest format, most of the works appear barely more than thumbnail sized. Page-sized and across-the-fold reproductions generally select only part of the image, then fade the colors enough that details sometimes become hard to pick out. The text, although helpful, does not qualify this book as a full biography or academic study. The odd and unsuccessful way of showing the paintings weakens this as a picture book, however. I'd like to have book that represents Courbet and his work. Although enjoyable, I find this book to do neither.

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on June 20, 2008. The length of the article is 526 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Realismo escandaloso: se exhibe en Montpellier la ambiciosa retrospectiva dedicada al pintor que propugnô el realismo frente al romanticismo, un artista decimonônico que provocô el espanto de la crîtica con algunos de sus cuadros.(exposiciôn de obras del artista Gustave Courbet)
Author: Fâtima Urîbarri
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 20, 2008
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Issue: 1203Page: 76(2)

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Chapters: Irène Joliot-Curie, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Henri Barbusse, François-Noël Babeuf, Alain Badiou, Gustave Courbet, Michel Onfray, Michel Rocard, Charles Fourier, Olivier Besancenot, Marcel Mauss, Louise Michel, Édith Cresson, Laurent Fabius, Pierre Mauroy, Louis Blanc, Louis Auguste Blanqui, René Viviani, Daniel Guérin, Gustave Hervé, Boris Souvarine, Georges Valois, Jean Maitron, Jules Guesde, Flora Tristan, Charles Péguy, Joseph Paul-Boncour, François-Vincent Raspail, Sylvain Maréchal, Marceau Pivert, Pierre Biétry, Sébastien Faure, Albert L'ouvrier, Félix Pyat, Emmanuel D'astier de La Vigerie, Maurice Sarrail, Étienne Cabet, Morelly, Victor Prosper Considerant, Gilbert Achcar, Pierre Juquin, Gisèle Halimi, Marc Augier, Vincent Peillon, Ilan Halevi, Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, Rodolphe Prager, Benoît Jules Mure, Jean Grave, Lucien Herr, Eugène Edine Pottier, Jules François Alexandre Joffrin, René Lefeuvre, Jean Longuet, Colette Audry, Antoine Karam, Robert Louzon, Hubert Lagardelle, Jacques Gillot, Édouard Berth. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 265. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (15 January 1809 in Besançon 19 January 1865 in Passy) was a French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. He was a member of the French Parliament, and he was the first person to call himself an "anarchist". He is considered among the most influential theorists and organisers of anarchism. After the events of 1848 he began to call himself a federalist. Proudhon was a printer who taught himself Latin in order to better print books in the language. His best-known assertion is that Property is Theft!, contained in his first major work, What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and Government (Qu'est-ce que la propriété? Recherche sur le principe ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=49944 ... Read more

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Chapters: Gustave Courbet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 89. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 181931 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement (characterized by the paintings of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix), with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social commentary in his work. Plage de Normandie. (c. 1872/1875). Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art.Courbet was a painter of figurative compositions, landscapes, seascapes, and still-lifes. He courted controversy by addressing social issues in his work, and by painting subjects that were considered vulgar: the rural bourgeoisie and peasantry, and the working conditions of the poor. His work belonged neither to the predominant Romantic nor Neoclassical schools. History painting, which the Paris Salon esteemed as a painter's highest calling, did not interest Courbet, who stated that "the artists of one century basically incapable of reproducing the aspect of a past or future century ..." Instead, he believed that the only possible source for a living art is the artist's own experience. His work, along with the work of Honoré Daumier and Jean-François Millet, became known as Realism. For Courbet realism dealt not with the perfection of line and form, but entailed spontaneous and rough handling of paint, suggesting direct observation by the artist while portraying the irregularities in nature. He depicted the harshness in life, and in so doing, challenged contemporary academic ideas of art. Courbet was born in 1819 to Régis and Sylvie Oudot Courbet i...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=209274 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Max Liebermann, Gustave Courbet, Adolph Menzel, Joseph Oppenheimer, Honoré Daumier, Walter Gay, Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin, Jean-François Millet, Nikiphoros Lytras, Wilhelm Leibl, Wilhelm Trübner, Kenyon Cox, Fjodor Sacharowitsch Sacharow, Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran, Rudolf Epp, Théodore Rousseau, Mykola Schmatko, Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow, Paul César Helleu, Guido Marzulli, Theodor Alt, Vlaho Bukovac, Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Ge, Miklós Barabás, Mihály Munkácsy, Alphonse Legros, Giuseppe Abbati, Neil Jenney, Waltraute Macke-Brüggemann, Henri Fantin-Latour, Friedrich Mosbrugger, Oskar Brázda, Antonín Slavíček, Hippolyte Delaroche, Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi, Fritz Ebel, Charles Leickert, Gabriel Schachinger, Paja Jovanović, Juan Manuel Blanes, Karl Gussow, Uroš Predić, Horacio Espondaburu. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Max Liebermann (July 20, 1847 - February 8, 1935) was a German-Jewish painter and printmaker best known for his etching and lithography. The son of a Jewish businessman from Berlin, Liebermann first studied law and philosophy at the University of Berlin, but later studied painting and drawing in Weimar in 1869, in Paris in 1872, and in the Netherlands in 1876-77. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), Liebermann served as a medic with the Order of St. John near Metz. After living and working for some time in Munich, he finally returned to Berlin in 1884, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was married in 1884 to Martha Liebermann (1857-1943, see portrait by Anders Zorn). He used his own inherited wealth to assemble an impressive collection of French Impressionist works. He later chose scenes of the bourgeoisie, as well as aspects of his garden near Lake Wannsee, as motifs for his paintings. In Berlin, he became a famous painter of portraits; his work is especially close in spirit to Édouard Manet. From 1899 to 1911 he led the premier avant-garde formation in Germany, the Berlin Secession....http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Eugène Pottier, Gustave Courbet, Jules Vallès, Paschal Grousset, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Gustave Paul Cluseret, Élections Municipales à Paris Du 26 Mars 1871, Jules Allix, Charles Delescluze, Eugène Varlin, Benoît Malon, Edmond-Alfred Goupy, Arthur Ranc, Jean-Jacques Pillot, Édouard Vaillant, Jean-Baptiste Clément, Félix Pyat, Charles Ferdinand Gambon, Eugène Protot, Gustave Flourens, Léo Fränkel, Raoul Rigault, Théophile Ferré, Charles Longuet, Émile Eudes, Gabriel Ranvier, Gustave Tridon, Pierre Vésinier, François Jourde, Jules Joffrin, Jules-Henri-Marius Bergeret, Louis-Simon Dereure, Frédéric Cournet, Gustave Lefrançais, Stanislas Xavier Pourille, Charles Amouroux, Auguste-Jean-Marie Vermorel, Augustin Avrial, Émile-Victor Duval, Louis-Auguste Rogeard, Jean-Louis Pindy, Paul Philémon Rastoul, Jules Miot, Charles Beslay, Armand Antoine Jules Arnaud, Adolphe Assi, Albert Theisz, Paul Antoine Brunel, Alexis Louis Trinquet, Léo Melliet, Dominique Regère, Jean-Baptiste Chardon, Arthur Arnould, Baptiste Descamps, Camille Langevin, Jules-Paul Johannard, Jules Martelet, Auguste Serraillier, Raoul Urbain, Georges Arnold, Alfred-Édouard Billioray, Auguste Sicard, Jean-Martial-Anthime Dupont, Eugène Gérardin, Jules Andrieu, Émile Léopold Clément, Jean-Baptiste-Hubert Geresme, Charles Ledroit, Charles Gérardin, Jacques Louis Durand, Philippe, Augustin Verdure, François-Charles Ostyn, Auguste Viard, Sixte-Casse Henry, Henri Mortier, Louis-Denis Chalain, Henry Louis Champy, Alphonse Lonclans, Émile Oudet, Antoine Demay, Adolphe Clémence, Ernest Puget, Ulysse Parent, François-Louis Parisel, Clovis Dupont, Jules-Nicolas-André Babick, Henri Chouteau, Victor Clément. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Gustave C...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more