Research Catalog

Title

Courbet : a dream of modern art / edited by Klaus Herding and Max Hollein.

Author

Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877

Publication

• Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, [2010]
• ©2010

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Details

Additional Authors

• Herding, Klaus
• Hollein, Max
• Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, host institution.

Description

304 pages : illustrations (some color)., portraits (some color); 30 cm

Summary

The intertwined stories of Realism and modernism begin with the great innovations of Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). Realism sought to record the messiness, poverty and brute facts of everyday life in urban and rural France, against the restrictions of religion and class and the high-flown emotion of the Romantic painters. Courbet's "Burial at Ornans" is a classic instance of Courbet's stance: it depicts a funeral in rural Ornans, and uses the occasion's actual participants, instead of models, portraying them entirely without sentiment, and on a scale usually reserved for royal subjects. But in his portraits, landscapes, drawings and still lifes, Courbet frequently suggested a more meditative, inward-looking realm, somewhat removed from his declarations of social realities, and revealed in such works his virtuoso touch and formal brilliance. Gustave Courbet: A Dream of Modern Art introduces this "other" Courbet, the painter whose vision of nature and formal preoccupations were later inherited by Cezanne and Picasso, and further built on by the Symbolists and Surrealists. With over 200 color reproductions of the French Realist's work, as well as essays by Sylvain Amic and Bettina Erche, this volume acts as a welcome counterweight to the Courbet we thought we already knew, further complicating and enriching our understanding of one of the most influential European painters any century has produced.

Alternative Title

Dream of modern art

Subjects

• Painting, French
• Artists
• History
• Artists > France > Exhibitions
• Painting, French > History > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877 > Exhibitions
• 1800 - 1899
• France
• Exhibition catalogs

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, October 15, 2010-January 30, 2011.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-299) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Max Hollein -- The other Courbet / Klaus Herding -- Courbet : artist, dreamer, and philosopher / Werner Herding -- How psychology comes across : introspection and facial expression in Courbet / Ulrich Pfarr -- Dreaming nudes / Michèle Haddad -- Courbet, painter of sleep and nightmares / Ségolène Le Men -- Courbet's Classical Walpurgis night : a vanished work resurfaces / Sylvain Amic and Florence Hudowicz -- Courbet, Wagner, and popular song / James H. Rubin -- From the eye of the storm / Paul Galvez -- The lady of Frankfurt : dream or reality? / Bettina Erche -- Trace, trail, dream : Courbet's hunting paintings / Gilbert Titeux -- Courbet and the representation of Misère : a dream of justice / Linda Nochlin -- Courbet in modernist and contemporary art / Klaus Herding -- Courbet, drawing / Margret Stuffmann.

Call Number

JQF 15-177

ISBN

• 9783775726290 (English ed.)
• 3775726292 (English ed.)
• 9783775726283 (German edition)
• 3775726284 (German edition)

OCLC

663951027

Author

Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877, artist.

Title

Courbet : a dream of modern art / edited by Klaus Herding and Max Hollein.

Publisher

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, [2010]

Copyright Date

©2010

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-299) and index.

Chronological Term

1800 - 1899

Added Author

Herding, Klaus, editor.

Hollein, Max, editor.

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 15-177