This survey explores the history of nineteenth-century European art and visual culture. Focusing primarily on painting and sculpture, it places these two art forms within the larger context of visual culture—including photography, graphic design, architecture, and decorative arts. In turn, all are treated within a broad historical framework to show the connections between visual cultural production and the political, social, and economic order of the time. Topics covered include The Classical Paradigm, Art and Revolutionary Propaganda In France, The Arts under Napoleon and Francisco Goya and Spanish Art at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century. For art enthusiasts, or anyone who wants to learn more about Art History.

Nineteenth-Century European Art

Chu, Petra Ten-Doesschate

Arts & Photography

Pearson College Div

Courbet in Perspective (The Artists in Perspective)

Courbet in Perspective

PRENTICE/HALL

Book by Weisberg, Gabriel P., Chu, Petra Ten-Doesschate

Redefining Genre: French and American Painting 1850-1900

Weisberg, Gabriel P.

Trust for Museum Exhibitions

Dixon Gallery and Gardens

History & Criticism

Trust for Museum Exhibition

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. In The Most Arrogant Man in France, the first comprehensive reinterpretation of Courbet in a generation, Chu tells the fascinating story of how, in the initial age of mass media and popular high art, this important artist managed to achieve an unprecedented measure of artistic and financial independence by promoting his work and himself through the popular press.
 The Courbet who emerges in Chu's account is a sophisticated artist and entrepreneur who understood that the modern artist must sell--and not only make--his art. Responding to this reality, Courbet found new ways to "package," exhibit, and publicize his work and himself. Chu shows that Courbet was one of the first artists to recognize and take advantage of the publicity potential of newspapers, using them to create acceptance of his work and to spread an image of himself as a radical outsider. Courbet introduced the independent show by displaying his art in popular venues outside the Salon, and he courted new audiences, including women.
 And for a time Courbet succeeded, achieving a rare freedom for a nineteenth-century French artist. If his strategy eventually backfired and he was forced into exile, his pioneering vision of the artist's career in the modern world nevertheless makes him an intriguing forerunner to all later media-savvy artists.

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

Princeton University Press

The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art, 1854-1918

Dixon, Laurinda S.

Mix, Elizabeth K.

Sik, Sarah

Mississippi Museum of Art

Gustave Courbet: The School of Nature

de Font-Réaulx, Dominique

SILVANA

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