{"product_id":"letters-of-gustave-courbet","title":"Letters of Gustave Courbet","description":"The French Realist painter Gustave Courbet (1819-77), a \u003cbr\u003epivotal figure in the emergence of modern painting, remains \u003cbr\u003ean artist whose interests, attitudes, and friendships are \u003cbr\u003elittle understood. A voluminous correspondent, Courbet \u003cbr\u003ehimself, through his letters, offers a tantalizing avenue \u003cbr\u003etoward a keener assessment of his character and \u003cbr\u003eaccomplishments. In her critical edition of over six hundred \u003cbr\u003eof the artist's letters, Petra ten-Doesschate Chu presents \u003cbr\u003ejust such a look at the inner life of the artist; her \u003cbr\u003eunparalleled feat of gathering together all of Courbet's \u003cbr\u003eknown letters, many heretofore unpublished and untranslated, \u003cbr\u003eis sure to change our evaluation of Courbet's creativity and \u003cbr\u003eof his place in nineteenth-century French life. \u003cbr\u003eBeginning when Courbet left his provincial home at \u003cbr\u003eeighteen and ending eight days before his death in exile in \u003cbr\u003eSwitzerland, this correspondence enables readers to follow \u003cbr\u003ethe artist's development from youth to mature artist of \u003cbr\u003einternational repute. Addressed to correspondents such as \u003cbr\u003ethe poet Charles Baudelaire, the painter Claude Monet, the \u003cbr\u003ewriters Champfleury, Victor Hugo, and Théeophile Gautier, \u003cbr\u003ethe political theorist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, and the \u003cbr\u003epolitician Jules Simon, the letters offer numerous insights \u003cbr\u003einto Courbet's life and art as well as the cultural and \u003cbr\u003epolitical activity of his day. In fascinating detail, they \u003cbr\u003epresent the artist's relation to the contemporary media, his \u003cbr\u003edeliberate choice of subject matter for Salon paintings, his \u003cbr\u003epreoccupation with photography, and his participation in the \u003cbr\u003eCommune. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBesides collecting, translating, and annotating the \u003cbr\u003eletters, Chu provides an introduction, a chronology, \u003cbr\u003ebiographies of persons appearing frequently in the letters, \u003cbr\u003eand a list of paintings and sculptures mentioned in the \u003cbr\u003eletters. Her work is an essential resource of immediate use \u003cbr\u003eto historians of art and culture, political and social \u003cbr\u003ehistorians, and readers of biography. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePetra ten-Doesschate Chu is professor and head of the \u003cbr\u003eDepartment of Art and Music at Seton Hall University.","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54218369991000,"sku":"9780226116532","price":109.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780226116532_6e1746ad-7cb3-46ba-a439-b5dbb7704076.jpg?v=1769750107","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/letters-of-gustave-courbet","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}