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Considered a rebel for his rejection of the genre works dictated by the Paris Salon in favor of paintings both more specific in subject and more personal, the works of Realist painter Gustave Courbet signaled a profound change in our ideas concerning the role of art and the function of the artist. In this new volume, Sarah Faunce provides an evocative portrait of this controversial painter, exploring the ways in which Courbet's work developed and challenged the expectations of his day, while discussing the major features of his work and showing how his work prefigured the paintings of many of the Impressionists such as Monet, Manet, and Cýzanne. The 40 full-page, full-color plates reproductions of the artist's most important works--including The Stonebreakers, A Burial at Ornans, Painter's Studio, The Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine, and many self-portraits-- are accompanied by an extended commentaryConsidered a rebel for his rejection of the genre works dictated by the Paris Salon in favor of paintings both more specific in subject and more personal, the works of Realist painter Gustave Courbet signaled a profound change in our ideas concerning the role of art and the function of the artist. In this new volume, Sarah Faunce provides an evocative portrait of this controversial painter, exploring the ways in which Courbet's work developed and challenged the expectations of his day, while discussing the major features of his work and showing how his work prefigured the paintings of many of the Impressionists such as Monet, Manet, and Cýzanne. The 40 full-page, full-color plates reproductions of the artist's most important works--including The Stonebreakers, A Burial at Ornans, Painter's Studio, The Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine, and many self-portraits-- are accompanied by an extended commentary

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