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Languages : fr
Pages : 0
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Dessins et tableaux des 19e et 20e siècles
Author: The Most Arrogant Man in France
Author: Petra ten-Doesschate ChuPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691268207
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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A comprehensive reinterpretation of the pioneering and media-savvy artist 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, Chu tells the fascinating story of how, in the initial age of mass media and popular high art, this important artist managed to achieve an unprecedented measure of artistic and financial independence by promoting his work and himself through the popular press. The Courbet who emerges in Chu's account is a sophisticated artist and entrepreneur who understood that the modern artist must sell—and not only make—his art. Responding to this reality, Courbet found new ways to "package," exhibit, and publicize his work and himself. Chu shows that Courbet was one of the first artists to recognize and take advantage of the publicity potential of newspapers, using them to create acceptance of his work and to spread an image of himself as a radical outsider. Courbet introduced the independent show by displaying his art in popular venues outside the Salon, and he courted new audiences, including women. And for a time Courbet succeeded, achieving a rare freedom for a nineteenth-century French artist. If his strategy eventually backfired and he was forced into exile, his pioneering vision of the artist's career in the modern world nevertheless makes him an intriguing forerunner to all later media-savvy artists.
Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum
Author: Harvard University. Fine Arts LibraryPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Art and Auctions
Author: Dessins anciens et modernes
Author: Piasa (Paris)American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Franklin KellyPublisher:
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Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Livres
Author: Arcole (Paris)Connaissance Des Arts
Author: Dessins anciens
Author: F (La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire) Lombrail et J.-P TeucquamPublisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 28
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