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| Summary: | With its fittingly dramatic design, Courbet and the Modern Landscape accompanies the first major museum exhibition specifically to address Gustave Courbet's extraordinary achievement in landscape painting. Many of these carefully selected works produced from 1855 to 1876--gathered from Asia, Europe, and North America--will be new to readers.<br> The catalogue--which accompanies an exhibition at the Getty Museum to be held from February 21 to May 14, 2006--highlights the artist's expressive responses to the natural environment. Essays by the curators examine Courbet's distinctly modern practice of landscape painting. Mary Morton's essay situates his landscapes in relation to his work in other genres, his critical reputation, and his role in establishing a new pictorial language for landscape painting. Charlotte Eyerman's essay investigates how later generations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists responded to Courbet's example. The catalogue also includes an essay by Dominique de Font-Réaulx, curator of photographs at the Musée d'Orsay, on the relationship between Courbet's work and landscape photography of the 1850s and 1860s.
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| Item Description: | "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. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 140 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-133) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 0892368365 |
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