Published by Hatje Cantz, 2010
ISBN 10: 3775726292 ISBN 13: 9783775726290
Seller: Classikon - Kunst & Wissen e. K., München, Germany
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Neu. Dust Jacket Condition: Neu. 1. Auflage. Gustave Courbet (1819 1877) is the preeminent representative of Realism and the spearhead of a style of painting committed to socially relevant issues. His lifelike portraits defy the artistic convention of idealization. The painter had another side, however: in his portraits, landscapes, drawings, and still lifes, he depicted a contemplative, meditative, inward-looking world, which stood in stark contrast to the fast-paced industrialization of the period. This publication introduces this other Courbet, one who, inspired by German Romanticism, succeeded in creating the vision of poetic modern art, as it was later refined not only by Cézanne and Picasso, but also by the Symbolists and Surrealists. His immersion into the depths of a personality, into the remoteness of pristine nature, as well as his thematization and dissolution of matter are reasons why many contemporary artists still make reference to his work. Exhibition schedule: Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, 2010 2011. - - - 304 pages, 220 colored illustrations, hardcover edition , Format 24,7 x 29,7 cm . Immediate dispatch of a new, shrink-wrapped publisher's copy.