Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
By D'Souza, Aruna PETRA TEN-DOESSCHATE CHU The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 246 pp.; 49 color ills., 88 b/w.
Art History Newsletter (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
In the September 2008 Art Bulletin, Aruna D’Souza reviews Petra ten-Doesschate Chu’s book The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture. In her conclusion D’Souza writes: Ultimately, this book approaches–even if it chooses not to address head-on–what is perhaps the most urgent cultural question of our moment: How does art [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
COLOGNE.- The title of his exhibition, The Soliloquy of the Broom⁄Selbstgespräch eines Besens by the artist Olivier Foulon (*Brussels, 1976), floats between make-up, masquerade and painting. It focuses on Gustave Courbet's painting Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl painted by the French artist in 1865 in Trouville. It shows a lady named Jo, mistress and model of the artist James Whistler, looking
Looking Around (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
The Stone Breakers , Gustave Courbet, 1849-50 (destroyed 1945)/FORMERLY DRESDEN STATE ART COLLECTIONS At least no labor for me — I'm taking today off. Courbet's tireless (and, alas, lost) pair will labor in my place. Back Tuesday.
Overheard in New York (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Long Island lady #1 : Okay. I get what he's doing now. I'm moving on to the landscapes. Join me when you're done. Long Island lady #2 (still entranced) : Um. Yes. Yes, I'm done too. --Nude Room, Gustave Courbet Exhibit, Metropolitan Museum of Art Overheard by: Colleen Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2008-07-28
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Here's a dramatic landscape by Gustave Courbet I hadn't seen before, probably because it lives in The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA, a gift of Caroline Wiess Law. The Gust of Wind (ca 1865) is one of 96 exhibits in an unusual and imaginative exhibition which doesn't look at one artist or at a school of artists, but at a forest which inspired generations of artists and photographers. In the Forest...
Slog (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Me! Help! Gustave Courbet's The Desperate Man (184445), oil on canvas, 17 34 by 21 5/8 inches
Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
Histoire anecdotique des Cafés & Cabarets de Paris (1862) Alfred Delvau Histoire anecdotique des Cafés & Cabarets de Paris is a book on Parisian cafés by Alfred Delvau with illustrations by Gustave Courbet, Félicien Rops and Léopold Flameng, published by E. Dentu in 1862. The Courbet print (which, though it carries an etched signature beneath the [...]
OYAX (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) embraced the democratic ideas and values taking root in French Society following the overthrow of the French monarchy in the latter 1700s not only in his art, but in all other areas of his life as well. A moody bohemian-like person who naturally drifted to the margins of society, Courbet nonetheless sought political positions. At one time, he was the mayor of Paris's Sixth...
American Artist (Free subscription) | 13/04/2008
Heralded as a rebel of the Romantic movement, Gustave Courbet is today considered one of the first to propel Realism into the modern world. Like what you read? Subscribe to American Artist today!
Stowe Boyd's (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important.
American Artist (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
In the June 2008 issue of American Artist, we explored how Gustave Courbet is considered one of the first to propel Realism into the modern world. We offer more examples of his realist approach in this online exclusive gallery. To...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
NEW YORK CITY - A pioneering figure in the history of modernism and one of the major artists of mid-19th-century France, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was constantly at odds with authority. He rejected artistic convention, challenged academic norms, and created artworks that scandalized the public. By rebelling against tradition, he paved the way for the Impressionists and, through them, modern art....
Art Boobs (Free subscription) | 26/03/2008
"The Bathers" (1858) by Gustave Courbet, Oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Photo: René Lewandowski. Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. Best known as an innovator in Realism (and credited with coining the term), Courbet was a painter of figurative compositions, landscapes and seascapes. He...
A Spork in the Drawer (Free subscription) | 23/03/2008
Le Désespéré (Self-portrait), 1843-45. (Courbet must be watching the Democratic primaries.) .
