The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture by Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu

The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture

Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu

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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....

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