Courbet's Landscapes

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The Origins of Modern Painting

By Paul Galvez

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Courbet's Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting offers a groundbreaking exploration of Gustave Courbet's landscape paintings created between 1862 and 1866. Paul Galvez reveals how Courbet transformed Romantic landscape art into a direct and visceral engagement with nature, using a palette-knife technique. Travelling from the grottoes of Franche-Comté to the beaches of Normandy, the book situates Courbet not merely as a painter of rural French life but as a pivotal figure whose landscapes influenced modern French art and intersected with contemporary scientific and literary developments.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in arts and culture, particularly those drawn to 19th-century French painting, art history scholars, and enthusiasts keen to deepen their understanding of Gustave Courbet's influence on modern art.

A groundbreaking insight into Gustave Courbet and his bold experiments in landscape painting

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A groundbreaking insight into Gustave Courbet and his bold experiments in landscape painting

Between 1862 and 1866, Gustave Courbet embarked on a series of sensuous landscape paintings that would later inspire the likes of Monet, Pissarro, and Cézanne. This series has long been neglected in favour of Courbet’s paintings of rural French life. Courbet’s Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting explores these astonishing paintings, staking a claim for their importance to Courbet’s work and later developments in French modernism.

Ranging from the grottoes of Courbet’s native Franche-Comté to the beaches of Normandy, Paul Galvez follows the artist on his travels as he uses a palette knife to transform the Romantic landscape of voyage into a direct, visceral confrontation with the material world. The Courbet he discovers is not the celebrated history painter of provincial life, but a committed landscapist whose view of nature aligns him with contemporary developments in geology, history, linguistics, and literature.

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“A brilliant and provocative tour-de-force that places these works on fertile new ground, with important consequences for following generations.” — James H. Rubin, author of Why Monet Matters: Meanings Among the Lily Pads

“Highly original, engaging, and eloquent, Courbet’s Landscapes radically recasts our understanding of the painter of Ornans, offering a fresh insight into how one painted in nineteenth-century France.” — Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard University

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300244137

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 10 May 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 75 color illus.

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 208.0mm

Height: 267.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 208

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Paul Galvez

About the Author

Paul Galvez is research associate at the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, University of Texas.