Courbet and the modern landscape
By: Mary Morton and Charlotte Eyerman ; with an essay by Dominique de Font-Réaulx.
Contributors: Eyerman, Charlotte Nalle.; Font-Réaulx, Dominique de.; Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877.
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780892368365
Subjects: Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877 -- Exhibitions; Landscape in art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: Drawing inspiration from natural motifs, Gustave Courbet reset the course of French painting to embrace immediacy, vitality, and painterly self-expression. This book illustrates a highly selective group of landscapes from 1855 to 1877, most of them from the 1860s, when Courbet discovered in the countryside of his native Franche-Comte and on the shores of the Normandy coast a consistently rich source of visual stimulation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition Courbet and the Modern Landscape, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, from February 21 to May 14, 2006; at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from June 18 to September 10, 2006; and at the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, from October 15, 2006, to January 7, 2007"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / William M. Griswold; title: Acknowledgments / Mary Morton; title: Lenders to the exhibition; title: Courbet and the modern landscape / Mary Morton; title: Courbet's legacy in the twentieth century / Charlotte Eyerman; title: Reproducing reality: landscape photography of the 1850s and 1860s in relation to the paintings of Gustave Courbet / Dominique de font-Réaulx; title: Plates: Cliffs and valleys, Rocks and sources, Forests and streams, Snowscapes, Seascapes, Switzerland.