Image of the people : Gustave Courbet and the 1848 revolution
This work discusses the art of Gustave Courbet in the years directly after the 1848 revolution, showing how complex Courbet's intuition of the social and political issues of the time really was, and how appropriate were the pictures he painted for the Salon of 1851.
History
208 s. : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780500490136, 9780500272459, 0500490139, 050027245X
185808711
On the social history of art; the Courbet legend; Courbet's early years; Courbet in Paris 1848-49; Courbet in Ornans and Besancon 1849-50; Courbet in Dijon and Paris 1850-51.