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August 5, 2008
Linda Nochlin Courbet New York: Thames & Hudson, 2007. 224 pp.; 14 color ills.; 95 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780500286760)
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Petra ten-Doesschate Chu The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 248 pp.; 49 color ills.; 88 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780691126791)
Looking at the Landscapes: Courbet and Modernism (Papers from a Symposium Held at the J. Paul Getty Museum on March 18, 2006) Exh. cat. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007. 87 pp.; 72 color ills.; 12 b/w ills.

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.76

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When describing The Painter’s Studio: A Real Allegory Summing up Seven Years of My Artistic and Moral Life (1855) in a letter to a friend, Gustave Courbet notoriously quipped, “It’s pretty mysterious. Good luck to anyone who can make it out!” Art historians have long grappled with the ambiguities of Courbet’s oeuvre, and recent books by Linda Nochlin and Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu, as well as an online publication by the Getty Museum, demonstrate the ever-present...