Table of Contents

Introduction • 1. Innovation and Tradition in Courbet’s Burial at Ornans 2. Gustave Courbet’s Meeting: A Portrait of the Artist as a Wandering Jew • 3. Gustave Courbet’s Toilette de la mariée • 4. Courbet, the Commune, and the Visual Arts • 5. The Cribleuses de blé: Courbet, Millet, Breton, Kollwitz and the Image of the Working Woman • 6. In Detail: Courbet’s Burial at Ornans • 7. The De-Politicization of Gustave Courbet: Transformation and Rehabilitation Under the Third Republic • 8. Courbet, Oller and a Sense of Place: The Regional, the Provincial and the Picturesque in 19th-Century Art • 9. Courbet’s L’Origine du monde: The Origin without an Original • 10. Courbet’s Real Allegory: Rereading The Painter’s Studio • 11. Courbet and his Territory: How Landscape Means

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The complete writings on Gustave Courbet's work, by one of the most influential art historians of our time

About the Author

Linda Nochlin is an American writer, prominent feminist art historian and the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at New York University Institute of Fine Arts. She has written numerous books, including Women Artists, The Politics of Vision and Representing Women, all published by Thames & Hudson.

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