Gustave Courbet /
with essays by Dominique Font-Réaulx ... [et al.].
- New York : Ostfildern : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Hatje Cantz, 2008.
- 477 páginas : ilustraciones (principalmente color) ; 31 cm
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, Oct. 13, 2007-Jan. 28, 2008, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 27-May 18, 2008, and at the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, June 14-Sept. 28, 2008.
Courbet : utopia versus politics / Bertrand Tillier -- Realism and ambiguity in the paintings of Gustave Courbet / Dominique de Font-Réaulx -- "It was inevitable because it is not that we have encountered each other, it is our solutions" / Michel Hilaire -- A legacy of truth : the reference to Courbet, from Manet to Cézanne / Laurence des Cars -- A complex genesis : Courbet in the laboratory / Bruno Mottin -- "What no one else sees" : the tangible reality of the photographs of Balthasar Burkhard / Dominique de Font-Réaulx -- Catalogue -- Inventing Courbet : the early self-portraits -- From the private to the historic -- Manifestos -- Courbet the landscapist -- The modern temptation -- The nude : tradition transgressed -- The painter as melancholy hunter -- The experience of history : Courbet and the commune -- Appendixes -- Chronology / Dominique Lobstein -- Courbet anthology : Correspondence, reviews, and documents.