Courbet and the Modern Landscape

Courbet and the Modern Landscape by Morton, Mary. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780892368365.

With its fittingly dramatic design, Courbet and the Modern Landscape accompanies the first major museum exhibition specifically to address Gustave Courbets extraordinary achievement in landscape painting. Many of these carefully selected works produced from 1855 to 1876--gathered from Asia, Europe, and North America--will be new to readers. The catalogue--which accompanies an exhibition at the Getty Museum to be held from February 21 to May 14, 2006--highlights the artists expressive responses to the natural environment. Essays by the curators examine Courbets distinctly modern practice of landscape painting. Mary Mortons essay situates his landscapes in relation to his work in other genres, his critical reputation, and his role in establishing a new pictorial language for landscape painting. Charlotte Eyermans essay investigates how later generations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists responded to Courbets example. The catalogue also includes an essay by Dominique de Font-Réaulx, curator of photographs at the Musée dOrsay, on the relationship between Courbets work and landscape photography of the 1850s and 1860s.