TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chu,Petra ten-Doesschate
TI  - The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture 
SN  - 9780691268200
AV  - DS19 
U1  - 950.2 23
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Art and society
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Mongols
KW  - ART / Individual Artists / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alfred Bruyas
KW  - Alfred de Musset
KW  - Anthropomorphism
KW  - Caricature
KW  - Censorship
KW  - Champfleury
KW  - Charles Baudelaire
KW  - Charles Nodier
KW  - Charles Philipon
KW  - Counterculture
KW  - Cynicism (philosophy)
KW  - David d'Angers
KW  - Delacroix
KW  - Disgust
KW  - Dominique Papety
KW  - Edmond de Goncourt
KW  - Emperor of the French
KW  - Fat Girl
KW  - Feuilleton
KW  - Fine art
KW  - Franco-Prussian War
KW  - Gaudy
KW  - George Sand
KW  - Great power
KW  - Gustave Courbet
KW  - Gustave Flaubert
KW  - Hector Berlioz
KW  - Henri Fantin-Latour
KW  - Henri Murger
KW  - Henry Thomas Alken
KW  - History painting
KW  - Honoré Daumier
KW  - Horace Vernet
KW  - Immorality
KW  - Jacques Derrida
KW  - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
KW  - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
KW  - Jules Michelet
KW  - L'Artiste
KW  - Le Figaro
KW  - Looting
KW  - Louis Veuillot
KW  - Madame Bovary
KW  - Monsieur
KW  - Nadar (photographer)
KW  - Napoleon III
KW  - Napoleon
KW  - Newspaper
KW  - Nude (art)
KW  - Obscenity
KW  - Pessimism
KW  - Pierre Leroux
KW  - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
KW  - Pornography
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Pseudonym
KW  - Rambouillet
KW  - Resentment
KW  - Revue des deux Mondes
KW  - Roland Barthes
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Satire
KW  - Self-portrait
KW  - The Painter's Studio
KW  - Thomas Carlyle
KW  - Tintoretto
KW  - Valet
KW  - Victor Hugo
KW  - Victor Noir
KW  - Vulgarity
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 Courbet and the Press --; Chapter 2 Posing --; Chapter 3 Courbet’s Pantheon --; Chapter 4 Salon Rhetoric --; Chapter 5 Bisextuality --; Chapter 6 Packaging and Marketing Nature --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Photography Credits --; Index; restricted access
N2  - A comprehensive reinterpretation of the pioneering and media-savvy artistThe modern artist strives to be independent of the public's taste—and yet depends on the public for a living. Petra Chu argues that the French Realist Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) understood this dilemma perhaps better than any painter before him. In The Most Arrogant Man in France, Chu tells the fascinating story of how, in the initial age of mass media and popular high art, this important artist managed to achieve an unprecedented measure of artistic and financial independence by promoting his work and himself through the popular press.The Courbet who emerges in Chu's account is a sophisticated artist and entrepreneur who understood that the modern artist must sell—and not only make—his art. Responding to this reality, Courbet found new ways to ";package,"; exhibit, and publicize his work and himself. Chu shows that Courbet was one of the first artists to recognize and take advantage of the publicity potential of newspapers, using them to create acceptance of his work and to spread an image of himself as a radical outsider. Courbet introduced the independent show by displaying his art in popular venues outside the Salon, and he courted new audiences, including women.And for a time Courbet succeeded, achieving a rare freedom for a nineteenth-century French artist. If his strategy eventually backfired and he was forced into exile, his pioneering vision of the artist's career in the modern world nevertheless makes him an intriguing forerunner to all later media-savvy artists
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691268200?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691268200
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691268200/original
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