Under the direction of Carine JOLY.
Gustave Courbet, chronicle of a rehabilitation. 1/ The return home: from La Tour-de-Peilz to Ornans.
Silvana Editorial
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| N° d'inventaire | 26984 |
| Format | 17 x 23.5 |
| Détails | 192 p., color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Milan, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9788836650491 |
The painter Gustave Courbet, master of realist art, died in exile in Switzerland at La Tour-de-Peilz on December 31, 1877. His remains would not return to Ornans, his hometown, until 1919 in near anonymity. Some of his overly "raw" paintings and his anticlericalism, his participation in the events of the Commune and his alleged responsibility for the fall of the Vendôme Column are still fresh in people's minds: Gustave Courbet is consigned to the purgatory of artists.
In Ornans, however, initiatives were taken to revalue his work, but it was not until 1971 that a museum was dedicated to him in his hometown, a decisive step in the painter's rehabilitation, achieved thanks to the actions carried out by the Association of Friends of Courbet – which has now become the Gustave Courbet Institute.
We wanted to shed light on this "Courbet's return to the country: from La Tour-de-Peilz to Ornans" with numerous unpublished documents in this first volume of the collection "Gustave Courbet, chronicle of a rehabilitation".
Other volumes will follow and will allow the discussion to be broadened in time and space to reconsider the artist's work and its reception, both in France and abroad.
In Ornans, however, initiatives were taken to revalue his work, but it was not until 1971 that a museum was dedicated to him in his hometown, a decisive step in the painter's rehabilitation, achieved thanks to the actions carried out by the Association of Friends of Courbet – which has now become the Gustave Courbet Institute.
We wanted to shed light on this "Courbet's return to the country: from La Tour-de-Peilz to Ornans" with numerous unpublished documents in this first volume of the collection "Gustave Courbet, chronicle of a rehabilitation".
Other volumes will follow and will allow the discussion to be broadened in time and space to reconsider the artist's work and its reception, both in France and abroad.
In Ornans, however, initiatives were taken to revalue his work, but it was not until 1971 that a museum was dedicated to him in his hometown, a decisive step in the painter's rehabilitation, achieved thanks to the actions carried out by the Association of Friends of Courbet – which has now become the Gustave Courbet Institute.
We wanted to shed light on this "Courbet's return to the country: from La Tour-de-Peilz to Ornans" with numerous unpublished documents in this first volume of the collection "Gustave Courbet, chronicle of a rehabilitation".
Other volumes will follow and will allow the discussion to be broadened in time and space to reconsider the artist's work and its reception, both in France and abroad.