Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution

Description

This work discusses the art of Gustave Courbet in the years directly after the 1848 revolution, showing how complex Courbet's intuition of the social and political issues of the time really was, and how appropriate were the pictures he painted for the Salon of 1851.

T.J. Clark is a British art historian and writer, who has taught art history in a number of universities in England and the United States, including Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley.